This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC … effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education distortions. Analytically, the effect of SBTC on these three … distributional losses, and it increases education distortions. Also, SBTC lowers optimal education subsidies, since SBTC generates …

The Education for All (EFA) movement, launched in 1990, has resulted in an extraordinary mobilization of World Bank and … country resources in support of basic education over the past 15 years. World Bank EFA financing, mostly focused on primary … education, has become increasingly progressive, targeting the most disadvantaged countries and often the disadvantaged within …

areas2). Nonetheless, the models rank poorly in terms of teacher education and experience, adoption of active …