the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. …

We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …

The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of … direct and indirect (spillover) effects. Thus, the analysis suggests that a key way that English education purports to help …

This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the … current policies in the field of education in Bihar. Finally, it makes a case for several policy initiatives that should be …

Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China's higher education expansion commenced in … 1999 affects the education opportunities of various population groups and how this policy affects the labor market …. Treating the expansion as an experiment and using a LATE framework, we find that higher education expansion increased the …

This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an … extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome … their education policies if highly productive labor is fully mobile. Extortionary governments? incentives for education …

Many authors have recently suggested that the heterogeneity in the quality of early education may be one of the key …-1977 significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. The reform shifted the tracking … age in secondary education from age 10 to 16 and imposed a uniform academic curriculum on entire cohorts until the end of …

This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a … motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a result of increasing own income, the median voter prefers in the … future lower taxes than without higher education. Therefore, the expansion of participation in higher education during the …