We revisit human capital and development accounting. In quantifying human capital, we split
it into three components; schooling (years of education), cognitive skills (as proxied by test …

Despite a high primary school enrollment in India, the overall learning levels have been low,
and the dropout level in secondary school and beyond has been high. One reason for low …

Although several empirical studies have investigated the growth impact of the quantity of
schooling in African countries, research on the impact of schooling quality (the degree to …

This paper studies the impact of a large-scale public health intervention in early life on
cognitive skills in childhood. Iodine deficiency is the most common predictor of brain …

An interactive CDR index combines the degree of capitalism, democracy, and rule of law
associated with a particular country. In previous work, depictions of the CDR index and its …

Analyzing education does not only involve years of schooling, quality matters! This paper
aims at providing better data on schooling with a focus on learning outcomes. It provides the …

This paper studies how industries' investment in organizational capital (OC) and workforce
skills relate to productivity, building on OECD estimates of OC, output data from the OECD …

The K4D Emerging Issues report series highlights research and emerging evidence to policy-
makers to help inform policies that are more resilient to the future. K4D staff researchers …

Motivation Despite increases in school enrolment, the world is facing a global learning crisis
that suggests a trade‐off between the quantity and quality of education. Purpose This case …

Este artículo estima los efectos de las habilidades cognitivas en el crecimiento económico
de 22 departamentos colombianos entre 2000 y 2019. Mediante la construcción de una …