's occupation, parental education, and the number of books in the family home. Our results suggest that children's reports of their … socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on … children's reports of family or home characteristics rather than information provided by their parents. There is a well …

This paper reviews some of the econometric methods that have been used in the economics of education. The focus is on … interpretation of the results. We start by considering the estimation of the returns to education both within the context of a … of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement, and the effect of school …

measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …

measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …

education policy in the developed country, and how it affects human capital and welfare in the two countries. We argue that a … country after graduation, incentivises the host country to improve its education quality. A higher education quality in turn …