A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor … market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic … participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these “nonproduction” benefits of education. …

This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives …-being reflected by their health and cognitive development. They are distinguished from the labor market outcomes of education in terms … of higher earnings and wage rates. The focus is on identifying causal effects of education and on mechanisms via which …

This chapter presents a review and synthesis of effects of education in agriculture, summarizes major contributions … education or general intellectual achievement by schooling in our empirical research, this has led to biased interpretations of …

Attention to the issue of inequalities in education has risen considerably after the COVID-19 pandemic. Research points … labour, power and wealth. This Briefing Paper assesses the current international debate on inequality in education focussing …, we will provide an overview of the current status quo of global disparities in education. Finally, we will analyse the …