This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and … a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive contribution that aid has made to education in aid … education. But the paper also indicates that there is a considerable gap between what aid does and what it could potentially …

health and education by new oil and gas revenues, and what other uses of those revenues are likely to arise. The paper argues …

threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage … 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …

overinvest in education, whereas worker mobility generates a free-rider effect for governments, who are not willing to subsidize … the education of agents who will work abroad. At equilibrium, the free-rider effect always dominates the competition …

schooling and of the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education. This framework is applied to 14 … additional year of schooling for an individual of average attainment, taking into account the effects of education on wages and … education, and measures of the fiscal returns to schooling that capture the long-term effects of a marginal increase in …

Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of … education aid examine its impact on college enrollment. In this paper, we provide evidence on the causal impact of means …

The number of international students worldwide has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that … are partly tax-funded, a country's labour force might not be willing to subsidize the education of international students … the financing of higher education for 22 OECD countries for the period of 2000 to 2011. Based on fixed effects estimations …

The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of … college education subsidies and for the excess burden of income taxation caused by the college margin. We also show how the … recent structural labor literature on college education. The model incorporates multidimensional heterogeneity, idiosyncratic …