and Catholics and interactions between colonial regimes and the church-based provision of goods like education. …

This paper incorporates an explicit education signaling mechanism into a dynamic model of production and asks if … "higher education as a signal" helps explain the simultaneous increase in the supply and price of skilled relative to …

We examine how the interaction between education and corruption affects institutional reform and economic development …. While corruption reduces average income and education, education increases not only output and hence potential corruption … intermediate levels of education remain in a poverty trap since the level of skills creates sufficient corruption rents but not …

The purpose of this paper is to study how education shapes the allocation of talent. To model the link between … education and the allocation of talent, we add two features to a Spence (1974) type of two-sector education model. First …, performance contracts give a worker incentives to choose the sector where (she believes she is) most productive. Second, education …

growing economic independence; the career cycle hypothesis, which highlights the difficulty of school-to-work transition; and …

Standard indicators of human capital endowment ¿ like literacy, school enrollment ratios or years of schooling ¿ suffer …

provision of education may offer an intuitively appealing case for the production-side impacts. We also address the reasons for …