Formal education is correlated with entrepreneurial activity and success, but correlation does not indicate causation …. Education and entrepreneurship are both influenced by other related factors. The current study estimates causal effects of … formal education on entrepreneurship outcomes by instrumenting for an individual's years of schooling using cohort mean years …

dramatic augmentation of working population with vocational education relative to general education. This is consistent with … the recent literature, which argues that the ratio of vocational-to-general education tends to be higher in middle …-income countries. We explore an analytical approach to open up fresh insights into the composition of secondary education and prove the …

better educational outcomes: quality pre-primary education, quality teaching, accountability and autonomy of teaching … institutions, comprehensive lower secondary education and availability of individual financing for the pursuit of higher education. …

The global education goals, with their emphasis on the quantitative indicators such as the enrollment rates or the … number of years of schooling, may have led to too narrow a focus in linking education to human capital development. While … many low-income countries have made remarkable progress towards achieving universal primary education, there are serious …

education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …

economics' from principal agent models and contract theory. In particular, many education systems attempt to manage teaching and …. 1977; Boli et al. 1985; Meyer et al. 1997). That is, the field (in the sense of Bourdieu 1993) of global education has …, measured in any way). I conclude with a comparison in India of the national governments recent efforts in basic education which …

This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …

This paper examines the relationship between the education level of Spanish emigrants and their destination country … be due to dissimilarities in their level of education. To explore this, we use census microdata, covering the period from …