firms use costly education as a signal of comparative advantage for equilibrium task allocation, a low price of education … leads to too few, and a high price of education leads to too many graduates on the labor market. Consequently, firms screen …

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 …

surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …

higher education finance, which saw the introduction of up-front tuition fees and the abolition of maintenance grants in 1998 …

We apply theories of capital market failure to ana1yzeoptima1 financing of risky higher education. In the market … solution,students can only finance their education through debt. There isunderinvestment in human capita1, because some … equityfinancing of education coupled to provision of some income insuranceis the optimal way to finance education when private markets …