downward trending intergenerational education persistence) and a reduction of the returns to education. However, for some …

To promote SDG Goal 4 and "education for all", this study investigates children’s basic reading skills in 11 low …

Education is a crucial asset for a country's economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct … (generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this chapter, we study education inequality in … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …

: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …-educated women (those with incomplete secondary education). However, progress has not been equal across all the countries in the …

, along with purely economic variables, such as GDP per capita and government expenditure on education. The study covered 70 …

public high school students, so that they can attend technical and vocational education courses free of charge. We use a … evidence on gender heterogeneity in the labor market effects of technical and vocational education programs. We also perform a …

levels of human capital, typically measured through education, earn more on average and are privy to greater levels of upward … change over time. Nevertheless, other factors may have an incremental effect over education, namely cognitive ability and the …

productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …

Looking at the decentralized provision of public education in a middle-income country, this paper estimates the impact … development. In the year 2002, Colombian municipalities were entrusted with autonomous management of their local public education … based solely on a population threshold. I estimate the impact that autonomy has had on education performance across the …