As the biggest developing country with the largest population in the world, China has made
great achievements in education development, which has contributed tremendously to …

The role of improved schooling, a central part of most development strategies, has become
controversial because expansion of school attainment has not guaranteed improved …

In the 60-plus year history of returns to investment in education estimates, there have been
several compilations in the literature. This paper updates Psacharopoulos and Patrinos and …

Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical sciences focus only on very
narrow outcomes such as income, or a single specific disease state, or a measure of positive …

This report documents differences in the earnings and employment patterns of US adults
with different levels of education. It also compares health-related behaviors, reliance on …

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the
role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely …

Education is critical for economic growth and poverty reduction. Quality education systems
produce the global economy's workers and expand knowledge. Schooling enables students …

We exploit cross-cohort variation in the prevalence of teacher strikes within and across
provinces in Argentina to examine how teacher strikes affect student long-run outcomes …

Such diverse thinkers as Lao-Tze, Confucius, and US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
have all pointed out that we need to be able to tell the difference between real and assumed …

Education is one of the most important predictors of people's life chances, shaping outcomes
like work and pay, health, and wealth. Explaining inequalities in educational outcomes, as …