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 …

education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards … 'education for all'. The optimal mechanism design of such a targeted transfer program is investigated. …

education contingent subsidy paid to the poorest families of a community manages to initiate a bandwagon effect towards … 'education for all'. The optimal mechanism design of such a targeted transfer program is investigated. -- School Attendance …

performance of a schooling system. The discussion provides possible explanations for these ambiguous findings. -- Education …

Over the past fifty years, elected officials in the name of education reform have promulgated countless policies. Yet … the major education policies implicitly or explicitly makes this connection. This paper highlights the incoherence among …

Analysis of poverty in Nicaragua emphasizes the welfare gains from education: non-poor households have higher levels of … educational attainment than poor ones (especially in post-primary education), and welfare gains have been associated with higher … and quality of preschool and post secondary education between richer and poorer households, between urban and rural areas …

Although most U.S. institutions of higher education now make appreciable use of work-based learning options, their … attention to experiential education as a learning vehicle is relatively limited. The connection between the work experience and …

From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …

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. …