-country datasets. The empirical results give evidence that all types of education are important for TFP growth and that there is an … interaction between education and the distance to the technology frontier. However, the analysis of sub samples of the data …

in the global market in higher education, in international research collaborations, and its close ties to the U.S. Korea … development; and that openness to the world of higher education and research is the best way to move forward and overcome the …

This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in …

with less unexplained growth. The theory distinguishes between three different sources of education gains: (1) supply …

policies; ii) education and skills; to ensure adequate skills for accessing good quality jobs; and iii) urban environments …

a probit model to estimate the effect of education, and a set of family background variables on intergenerational … persistence. Higher education is found to be associated with lower persistence. Ownership of productive assets exerts important …

the role of education in determining welfare and poverty and its reciprocal, the role of welfare and other aspects of … from the Ghana Living Standards Surveys. The results suggest that education levels play an important role in determining … household welfare and that higher levels of education have relatively larger and increasing benefits. Improvements are observed …

We study non-collusive corruption in the education sector. For this purpose, we construct a simple theoretical model …