of individuals surveyed in their early twenties. The inclusion of early life household wealth, parental education and … cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status - shorter individuals show a stronger …

health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand …This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and … by adding a measure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to the original education component, and it includes …

: direct effects on health, nutrition, and wellbeing, and indirect effects through changes in economic systems, markets, and …

public spending on human capital and their correlates in Africa. The study found public spending on health and education in … Africa to be inefficient. Efficiency was much higher in health spending than in educational spending. Factors such as …