Рассматриваются основные тенденции внутристрановых и межстрановых социально-экономических неравенств за последние 40 лет и их влияние на уровень человеческого...

This article considers the uneven positions of school teachers in different regions of the Russian Federation. There exist numerous research works on the relation of school teachers’ salaries to the characteristics of regional educational systems and regional economies. A range of indicators...

Рассматривается проблема институционально обусловленных структурно-профессиональных диспропорций разрывов (диссонансов) между профессиональными...

The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others – are exophobic – or because they favor their own kind – are endophilic? This difference matters, as the...

This paper describes and analyzes different financial schemes to promote lifelong learning. Considered are financial instruments to stimulate successful early learning, financial aid schemes and subsidization mechanisms. Theoretical analyses about funding of early learning have mainly focused on...

This paper exploits unique information on cognitive ability to examine the importance of schooling and non-schooling cognitive skills for heterogeneous individuals using instrumental variables estimation. Using a binary instrument based on the 1981 reform in Chile, the authors find that the main...

This paper presents an evaluation of multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries - the conditional cash transfer - with a student level randomization that allows the authors to generate intra-family and peer-network variation. The analysis tests...

Typically estimates of the benefits of education investments show average private rates of return for the average individual. The average may not be useful for policy. An examination of the distribution of the returns across individuals is needed. The few studies that have examined these...

Dans cet article, nous mesurons l'efficience technique des ecoles de maturite suisse romandes avec la methode non parametrique DEA. Les resultats revelent d'importants ecarts de performance entre etablissements et entre cantons. L'efficience technique moyenne s'eleve a 85%. La prise en compte de...