This study analyses the role of education in economic development in the republics of the former Socialist Bloc and … Federation, and Ukraine. The factors that are associated with the human capital in terms of education levels are analyzed in …

, controlling for legal origins and geography. Utilizing freshly collected data on colonial-era population density and education, we …-institutions channel. The effect of education is robust to including variables capturing legal origin and geography, which have additional … explanatory power. We also find some evidence that institutions are endogenous to education. …

This paper investigates a possible impact of education corruption on economic growth in Russia. It argues that high … levels of education corruption may harm total factor productivity in the long run, primarily through lowering the level of … reduce education corruption in the short run, but can eventually lead to implementation of higher ethical standards in the …

This essay analyzes the long-run economic effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya, with emphasis on fertility, education and child … labor. Human capital, which is built up through formal education and parental child-rearing, is the only input in production …