Many authors have recently suggested that the heterogeneity in the quality of early education may be one of the key …-1977 significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. The reform shifted the tracking … age in secondary education from age 10 to 16 and imposed a uniform academic curriculum on entire cohorts until the end of …

Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But …

This paper estimates the effect of a major education reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The …-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We …

positive trade shocks, or improvements in export tax revenues, increased expenditures on education per capita and education … outcomes in the period 1889 to 1930. In fact, trade shocks ended up altering the inequality in education levels across states … in a permanent way. The paper ends by explaining why politicians spent windfall tax revenues to invest on education. …

This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii … construct a novel data base that includes information on education reforms for thirty-one countries spanning four decades … education reduces the number of emigrants by almost 10%. Increasing the length of compulsory education shifts educational …

dramatic augmentation of working population with vocational education relative to general education. This is consistent with … the recent literature, which argues that the ratio of vocational-to-general education tends to be higher in middle …-income countries. We explore an analytical approach to open up fresh insights into the composition of secondary education and prove the …

education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …