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 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 …

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment … long time period (1960-2000), we update the results of previous studies on education gaps on growth and extend the analysis … to employment gaps using panel data. We find that gender gaps in education and employment significantly reduce economic …

Achieving progress in education is of fundamental importance for human development. Low levels of access to the … education system and in educational outcomes in developing countries are often accompanied by high inequality between countries … education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within countries, and also by gender …

Attendance in education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent … analyzes differences in improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare …

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 …

-authored by Stephan Klasen) aims to solve a micro-macro paradox on the role of education for agricultural productivity. From a …