that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …

despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … working poor in acquiring education. From a field study conducted in Bangladesh, this paper provides invaluable insights for … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …

conducive business regulations amplify the positive impact on firm creation of better education and reduced skill mismatches. To … escape a low-productivity trap, policymakers should thus create a pro-business framework and a wellfunctioning education …

We utilize a natural experiment, an education reform increasing compulsory schooling from five to eight years in Turkey …, to obtain endogeneity-robust estimates of the effect of male education on the incidence of abusive and violent behaviour … against women. We find that husband`s education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence …