rates and completed years of schooling. Nevertheless, in many countries substantial education gaps persist between rich and …

could also improve their education outcomes. Given the importance of education for economic development, this link could be … the impact of child health on education outcomes, but there are formidable obstacles to obtaining credible estimates. Data … sources of bias when attempting to estimate relationships between child health and education. This Chapter provides an …

education. Wage premiums measure␣the return to education because their long-run movements are driven by factors exogenous to the … fertility process. The results indicate that high education parents’ fertility responds negatively to changes in the expected … education parents does not vary with changes to expected returns to education. These results can be consistently interpreted …

education funding systems and compare their performance in terms of growth rates and pace of convergence between two … heterogeneous regions. The analysis suggests that the choice of a particular education system incorporates a possible trade …

This paper examines interactions between education policy and growth. The analysis is carried out in an OLG model with … two types of individuals: skilled and unskilled. An increase in public education reduces private costs of education …, increases the proportion of skilled individuals, and tends to promote growth. On the other hand, education spending crowds out …

Intergenerational mobility in income and education is affected by the influence of parents on children's school choices … on children choices. Using data from a cross-country survey (PISA 2003), we study the impact of parental education on …) translates into greater dependence from parental background. These effects are reinforced when moving to post-secondary education …

have been acquired through formal education, East Germany has a high level of human capital in comparison to West Germany …