Over the past fifty years, elected officials in the name of education reform have promulgated countless policies. Yet … the major education policies implicitly or explicitly makes this connection. This paper highlights the incoherence among …

In 2000, Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise was published. This report, cosponsored by The … World Bank and UNESCO, came at a time of transition in higher education worldwide and helped shape higher education policy …

Analysis of poverty in Nicaragua emphasizes the welfare gains from education: non-poor households have higher levels of … educational attainment than poor ones (especially in post-primary education), and welfare gains have been associated with higher … and quality of preschool and post secondary education between richer and poorer households, between urban and rural areas …

Although most U.S. institutions of higher education now make appreciable use of work-based learning options, their … attention to experiential education as a learning vehicle is relatively limited. The connection between the work experience and …

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo … the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates that the abolishment of compulsory religious education in Germany does … children and participating in the labor market. Chapter 3 provides evidence that the content of science education standards in …

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 …

From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …

Pakistan's education system faces long-standing problems in access, quality, and equal opportunity at every level …: primary and secondary schools, higher education and vocational education. In spite of recent encouraging trends, such as the … rapid spread of private schooling and an expansion of higher education opportunities, systemic reform remains stubbornly …

Investments in education are of great importance for the competitiveness of the German economy. In particular, early … childhood education programs promise high returns - because children can benefit from them even years later and find it easier … to acquire new skills. These are the results of research in the field of the economics of education in recent years, at …

Investment in education is of great importance for the competitiveness of the German economy. In particular, early … childhood education programs promise high returns - because children can benefit from them even years later and find it easier … to learn new skills. These are the results of research in the field of the economics of education in recent years, at …