skills in literacy and numeracy remains high. Indeed, in some countries the return for such skills, in the form of higher … achieves a minimum level of literacy and numeracy. …

Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy … literacy. Leveraging novel data on the locations and timings of school openings in the 1970s INPRES school building program, we … document that household heads' literacy gained during childhood was pivotal for their households subsequently receiving their …

skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language, field-specific, and non-cognitive skills. Graduates of longer programs, of …

with non-university, post-secondary education in the OECD; and that the country’s literacy skills, particularly for the … young and well educated, are above average among the G7 countries that participated in the International Adult Literacy …

from the English Longitudinal Survey on Ageing (ELSA). This result is particularly remarkable since the 1947 reform had a …

ages contribute to this development. By use of event-study methods and data from the USA, England and several countries in …

from the English Longitudinal Survey on Ageing (ELSA). This result is particularly remarkable since the 1947 reform had a …