the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … Hopefuls to Best Performers, while the impact of education is increasingly positive. As a main policy implication, it would … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …

an overlapping generation economy, in which altruistic parents finance the education of their children and leave bequests … them from investing optimally in the education of their children. We consider two alternative ways of financing a public …

, are high. This persistence is correlated with high returns to education, relatively low progressivity in public … investments in education, and inequality of opportunity. An index of inequality of opportunity (including dimensions beyond an …, circumstances explain below 15 % of the observed variance in education, in Chile, they amount to almost half the explained variance …

explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …

education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have …' core pedagogical skills. These positive effects persist over time and are particularly salient in education priority …

higher education attending private colleges. …