other formal sector workers with comparable levels of education and experience. However, in all of those countries, teachers …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the World Bank–supported Teacher Education Improvement Project for Grades … international experts. The project won the United Kingdom's prestigious Times Higher Education Award for International Impact, 2018 … project is currently influencing the development of strategies for the coherent and systemic reform of teacher education in …

Using a high-frequency survey in the Republic of Yemen, this paper demonstrates how school attendance responds to a … school attendance but do affect other dimensions of well-being. And second, consequences of conflict aside from living in … results have implications for the delivery of education assistance in conflict settings …

paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of …

Many low- and middle-income countries lag far behind high-income countries in educational access and student learning …. Limited resources mean that policymakers must make tough choices about which investments to make to improve education …. Although hundreds of education interventions have been rigorously evaluated, making comparisons between the results is …

This paper outlines an extension of the Human Capital Index that addresses the specific challenges in education and … health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand … by adding a measure of quality-adjusted years of higher education to the original education component, and it includes …

-income countries - Indonesia, Pakistan, and South Africa - that the rate of return to university education (versus secondary education …This paper documents stylized facts on rates of returns to education during economic crises. It shows from three middle …