This paper presents an overview of school education in Delhi. [Working Paper No. 0068] …

This paper complements a much larger study of school attendance in pre-famine Ireland by FitzGerald (2010). It exploits … some of the data generated by that study to analyze further some of the determinants of schooling and literacy in the 1820s …

addressed in the utility approach is used. The two approaches are juxtaposed to examine how institutions such as caste and … religion mediate access and returns to education of men and women. The effort is to discuss whether, the capabilities approach … provides any advantage in addressing questions of inequity that may be mediated through such institutions. The main innovation …

An existing accounting framework to describe an education system is elaborated and used as a framework for … pupil performance, and in both countries the utilisation of education human resources appears particularly important. The …-country analysis that takes into account a secondary school completion ratio (a statistic calculated for this analysis) suggests that …

This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …, clarify the growth effects of other institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and …

This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …, clarify the growth effects of other institutions, including contract-enforcement mechanisms, guilds, communities, serfdom, and …