This paper reviews international research in the field of dropout from upper secondary
education and training in OECD countries in order to present possible solutions to …

In order to reduce the spread of COVID-19, most countries around the world have decided to
temporarily close educational institutions. However, learning has not stopped but is now fully …

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

This paper reviews some of the econometric methods that have been used in the economics
of education. The focus is on understanding how the assumptions made to justify and …

We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation—including
education, and savings for women in the United Kingdom, exploiting tax and benefit reforms …

We investigate the relationship between early school-leaving and parental education and
paternal income using UK Labour Force Survey data. OLS estimation reveals modest effects …

Behavioral economics attempts to integrate insights from psychology, neuroscience, and
sociology in order to better predict individual outcomes and develop more effective policy …

In this paper, we use an economic model to analyse data from a major randomized social
experiment, namely PROGRESA in Mexico, and to evaluate its impact on school …

Skills are frequently in the news and in the public eye in every country. Stories highlight
concerns about education and literacy standards, grades, learning by rote, and university …

The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by
2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the …