We evaluate the impact of deliberative dialogues about girls' education with groups of parents, teachers, and girls on … the education outcomes of girls in rural Zimbabwe. Dialog-based engagement campaigns increased mathematics performance and …

We examine colonial-era primary education as a determinant of modern-day attainment and gender disparities in education … influence of colonial schools on the probability of attaining primary and secondary education in 2004. Overall, schools … dedicated to Moroccans in 1931 exhibit a persistent positive impact on education outcomes, but only in the absence of nearby …

price of petroleum. In this paper, we provide evidence that returns to education have decreased significantly in Venezuela … provide free mass tertiary education, in particular targeting the poor and marginalized. The implementation of this program … created a sudden increase in the supply of skilled labor and had a direct impact on quality of education. Although we do not …

This paper demonstrates the acute sensitivity of education program effectiveness to the choices of inputs and outcome … negative effects (-0.33SDs) on advanced writing. We combine a conceptual model of education production with detailed classroom …

From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …

working and education. I look at the empirical relationship between working and educational expenditure budget shares for … particular, on average, girls engaged in paid work have total annual education expenditure shares that are 48.6% higher than … expenditure is directed towards goods that improve the quality of education. …

). Human capital theory predicts investment in education to improve labour market outputs. However, when it comes to lagging …