could also improve their education outcomes. Given the importance of education for economic development, this link could be … the impact of child health on education outcomes, but there are formidable obstacles to obtaining credible estimates. Data … sources of bias when attempting to estimate relationships between child health and education. This Chapter provides an …

The economic literature has shown that exogenous transitory shocks affect education by changing the opportunity cost of … impacted the long-term education and earnings of exposed cohorts living in affected areas. Our findings suggest that an …

of individuals surveyed in their early twenties. The inclusion of early life household wealth, parental education and …

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 …

, President Hugo Chávez implemented several education reforms. We focus on a major university education reform known as Mission … Sucre and its potential impact on returns to university education. First, we show that returns to education decreased … a 2.7 percentage point decline in returns to university education for non-Mission Sucre students in the 23–28 age cohort. …

between production and political activities. Our results could also reflect a link between education, “grievance”, and … between schooling and economic conditions matters too at the country level: Rising education levels coupled with macroeconomic …

jointly explains patterns of political participation at the individual level and differences in public investment in education …

of political activity identied in the literature, namely education, and its interaction with economic circumstances …. Using a combination of individual-level micro data and cross-country macro data, we highlight how rising levels of education …

jointly explains patterns of political participation at the individual level and differences in public investment in education …

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 …