We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …

The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to help …

This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the … current policies in the field of education in Bihar. Finally, it makes a case for several policy initiatives that should be …

How does availability of education affect who becomes a political representative? Theorists have pointed out access to … education as a key to a well-functioning democracy, but few empirical studies have examined how changes in the access to … education influence the chances of becoming a politician. In this paper we analyze the effects of a substantial series of school …

We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …

education – focusing on interest groups and education policy – and looks for relevant actors, their goals, interests and …-fluential actors in economic education policy and practice. A network with clear con-servative and economic-liberal leanings is … time, the question how to organize economic education remains a controversial issue. The political demands of these …

We develop a model of education where individuals face educational risk. Successfully entering the skilled labor sector … depends on individual effort in education and public resources, but educational risk still causes (income) inequality. We show …, because combining skill-specific tuition fees and public education spending provide both insurance and redistribution at lower …

Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China's higher education expansion commenced in … 1999 affects the education opportunities of various population groups and how this policy affects the labor market …. Treating the expansion as an experiment and using a LATE framework, we find that higher education expansion increased the …

the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. …