The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

growth models estimated across world regions, these low levels of cognitive skills can account for the poor growth … comparable income data. Our growth analysis using these data confirms the significant effects of cognitive skills on intra …

time experienced relative increases in their growth paths. From a policy perspective, the shares of basic literates and …We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth … is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy …

tracking increases educational inequality. While less clear, there is also a tendency for early tracking to reduce mean …

students compelled to stay on in education as a result of this compulsory school leaving rule attain higher qualification …

inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … analyse the association between parents? education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … convergence between males and females. The relationship between parental class and children?s education translates into earnings …

background. Thus, subgroups of the population seem to be confronted with binding budget constraints, although education is free … these effects and discuss the consequences these results might have for social and educational policy. …

their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …