We investigate whether increasing the education quality causes increases in economic growth allowing poorer countries to catch up. To this end, we extend Nelson-Phelps's classic paper by introducing differences in education quality (proxied by students' performance on the Program for...

Operational Research (OR) techniques have been applied, from the early stages of the discipline, to a wide variety of issues in education. At the government level, these include questions of what resources should be allocated to education as a whole and how these should be divided amongst the...

Nach langen Jahren der Abstinenz in der Politikberatung ist seit einiger Zeit ein deutlicher Wiederanstieg des 'politischen Kurswertes' der Bildungsökonomie zu verzeichnen. Unübersehbar ist die Tendenz, ihr eine wichtigere Politik unterstützende Rolle zuzuweisen. Die verschärften...