The purpose of the paper is to help inform priorities for improving human capital. Governments, communities, and individuals invest a lot of resources in human capital. These investments include those in education, immigration systems, health, active labour market policies, and tax incentives....

Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of students who get into a better school help their kids...