region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment … paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis. …

We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of … gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women consider their chances of getting top positions to be lower than menś …. Gender quotas discourage men who are less efficient in forming human capital, and encourage women who are more efficient in …

period, first the post-World War baby boom and then the substantial increase in education led to higher economic growth than … otherwise expected. As the pace of increase in education slowed and the workforce aged toward the end of the period, human …

We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement …, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We … dispersion of parental education in the school increases. We also show that boys with sisters who are exposed to a higher share …

This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

-employed varies considerably based on gender, caste and age when the level of education rises. A cohort based analysis for …-employed rises for an individual with education but not monotonically so. Indeed, the impact of education on likelihood of self …-employment does not convey much information without considering how the effect varies across gender, caste, age, household size …

We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive … ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers …, compulsory education is implemented first and triggers the onset of market R&D. According to the British way, market R&D is …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education …