permanent endowments as well as on education. We find evidence of statistically significant complementarity, i.e. the higher …

the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

empirically. The conceptual frame-work relies on the human capital theory, where individuals weigh the costs and the returns of … education to decide on the optimal amount of education they want to invest in. In an extension of the model, the educational …

"Highlights costs of inadequate education, attaching hard numbers to the relationship between educational attainment … policy interventions to boost the education system's performance and explains why demographic trends are so challenging to …The education attainment gap : who's affected, how much, and why it matters / Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin …