While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … of education in the international context is rather a data problem related to the use of enrolment and literacy … Barro-Lee educational attainment dataset, we show that education indeed has a highly significant, positive effect on …

education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …

1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …

effect of the policy on educational attainment. With recent data on eight cohorts exposed to free education, we analyze the … likelihood of primary school completion. We find some weak evidence that the likelihood of those who completed primary education …

education on per capita economic growth, including cross-country, time series, and sub-national growth regressions. Studies … using male and female education as separate covariates show a larger effect of female than male education on growth, except …-regression analysis for studies that use the female-male ratio of education as explanatory variable. There we find evidence for a positive …

-income achievements in education and health. This article contributes to the literature by expanding the toolbox with several new measures …, poor education outcomes, poor health outcomes, low land productivity and low labor productivity overlap only to a small … decade of the 2000s. Our application shows that the enormous progress made in the income, education and health dimension of …

Program is calculated as a simple average of the Life Expectancy Index (LEI), the Education Index (EI) and the Gross Domestic …