a constitutional right of every citizen. Disparity in education or literacy rate will lead to disparity in human … the regional disparity in educational development. Since, literacy plays an important role in overall development of a …. Against this background the present study discusses some important perspectives on the regional disparities in literacy rate …

presents some basic facts on the evolution of spatial inequalities in education and healthcare in China over the long run. In … the era of economic reforms, as the foundations of education and healthcare provision have changed, so has the … distribution of illiteracy and infant mortality. Across provinces and within provinces, between rural and urban areas and within …

We exploit a natural experiment to estimate the causal impact of parental education on educational outcomes of their … children when they are high school seniors. In 1968, the Taiwanese government extended compulsory education from 6 to 9 years …

levels in Latin America. Low levels of education continue to be singled out as the main obstacle to higher productivity in … the region. We examine the scope for education to lift labor incomes above poverty levels in Latin America and find that … in many countries education, by itself, has a positive, but limited, potential to increase wages above a minimum level …

measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …

measure is a cohort-weighted average of past PISA scores (representing the quality of education) of the working age population … and the corresponding mean years of schooling (representing the quantity of education). In contrast to the existing … elasticity of the stock of human capital with respect to the quality of education is three to four times larger than for the …