The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The … present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition … period 2000–04. We find very low returns to education in Georgia and little evidence of an increasing trend in the returns …

This paper evaluates whether the expansion of higher education is economically worthwhile based on a recent surge in … policies targeting the expansion of higher education. …

We explore how government fragmentation affects public education provision by examining the case of Chile, which …

rates and completed years of schooling. Nevertheless, in many countries substantial education gaps persist between rich and …

used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a “stoplight” system for in-person instruction. Using administrative … younger children in initial and primary education. The results are robust to specification choice, multiple hypothesis …

During the Cultural Revolution China embarked on a remarkable, albeit temporary, expansion of post-primary education in … rural areas. This education expansion affected tens of millions of children who reached secondary school age in the late … 1960s and 1970s. Exploiting the education expansion and variation across birth cohorts, we estimate the returns to …