broader measure of human capital that accounts for international differences in the quality of education. Our findings suggest … that more quality-adjusted education does increase the income of the poor in addition to its positive effect on average … income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education(i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …

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 …

health and education, notably female, represent especially important links determining the strength of the relationship …