The authors use a unique data set on language, and mathematics test scores for third, and fourth graders in eleven different Latin American countries, to determine whether child labor raises or lowers school achievement. Their findings are amazingly consistent across countries. In every country,...

School autonomy and parental participation have been frequently proposed as ways of making schools more productive. Less clear is how governments can foster decentralized decision making by local schools. This article shows that across eight Latin American countries, most of the variation in...

Over the past quarter century, Kansas has grown at 2.4% per year compared to the U.S. average of 3.1% per year. Kansas has also grown more slowly than the other Prairie states, although the gap is only 0.1% per year. The puzzle is that as a relatively highly educated state, Kansas should have...

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Two-digit manufacturing industry-level production functions are used to test efficiency wage propositions. Conclusive tests require functional forms which allow differences in elasticities of substitution between observable human capital, wage premia and other inputs. Results demonstrate that...

Balochistan Province of Pakistan initiated two pilot programs attempting to induce the creation of private schools for poor girls. Randomized assignment to treatment and control groups is used to measure program effectiveness. The pilot schools were successful in urban areas, but relative...

A special report by: National Pork Board, Pfizer Animal Health, and National Hog Farmer.

Since 1980, income inequality has risen faster in Taiwan than in the United States. Inequality rose despite a rapid increase in the share of educated workers in the labour market that might have been expected to depress returns to education. Returns to a college education rose in Taiwan for all...

Reprinted in Mario F. Bognanno and Morris M. Kleiner, Labor Market Institutions and the Future Role of Unions (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1992). Abstract Currently Unavailable.