insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …

will hamper remittance growth. We revisit the relationship between education and remitting behavior using microdata from … surveys of immigrants in eleven major destination countries. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the … likelihood of remitting, and a strong positive relationship between education and the amount remitted conditional on remitting …

This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals …, the empirical analysis uses World Values Surveys to study the link between education and democratic attitudes. Controlling … for a variety of characteristics, the paper finds that higher education levels tend to result in prodemocracy views. These …

development. The 2018 WDR-LEARNING to Realize Education's Promise-is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the time is … right: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social … promote education. The 2018 WDR explores four main themes: First, education's promise: education is a powerful instrument for …

, education, market efficiency, infrastructure, and institutions. Based on underlying proxies, the paper constructs indexes … Development countries and education for developing countries in the most recent decade. The regression results indicate that …

This paper presents the largest globally comparable panel database of education quality. The database includes 163 …-the countries that have the most to gain from the potential benefits of a high-quality education; (3) the data set contains credible … global progress on education quality, as well as to uncover potential drivers of education quality, growth, and development …

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses-the average number of years of …) its virtues of simplicity and transparency make it a good candidate summary measure of education …

This paper documents inequality in health and education outcomes by constructing an index of human capital …