This paper challenges Hanushek and Woessmann’s [2008] contention that the quality and not the quantity of schooling … nation’s average test scores and average schooling attainment are included in a national income model, both measures explain … income differences, but schooling attainment has greater statistical significance. The high correlation between a nation …

The current study provides new empirical evidence on the causal effect of education on health-related behaviors by … exploiting historical changes in the compulsory schooling laws in Australia. Since World War II, Australian states increased the … age across different cohorts and across different states as a source of exogenous variation in education, we show that …

While assessing the status of the schooling infrastructure, the evaluation at the aggregate level (at the national or …

The present paper explores trends in privatization of school education in Andhra Pradesh and regional variations and …

The economics literature identifies three effects of schooling on national income; the direct effect on the earnings of … the workers who receive the schooling and the external effects on workers´ earnings and on physical capital due to … schooling´s spillover effect on the productivity of these other factors of production. This paper reviews the estimates of the …

This paper examines the causal effect of parental schooling on children’s schooling using a large sample of adoptees … from Taiwan. Using birth-parents’ education to help control for selective placement of children with adoptive parents, we … schooling and probability of university graduation. We also find evidence that adoptive father’s schooling is more important for …

help overcome remaining demand-side barriers to enrollment. Nonetheless, the quality of education appears very poor across … the developing world, limiting development impact. Thus we should measure and promote learning not schooling. Conditional … the broader environment in which students live, suggesting a learning agenda that stretches far beyond education …

' education (education of women), etc.; discusses migrant girls' schooling, educational levels, social integration and Motivation …