This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics
research. It delineates what is known and largely agreed, and what are the most promising …

School closures during the 2020 pandemic forced countries to rapidly adopt distance
learning, with uncertain effects on education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from …

Using survey data from 730 undergraduates in Vietnam, we find that learning motivation and
its components, especially self‐efficacy, finance learning value, and achievement goals …

Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and
affect the distribution of earnings on the labour market. This paper aims at explaining cross …

A notable feature of Italian society is low average educational attainment in comparison with
other late industrial countries (OECD 2009). Over time, the proportion of students obtaining …

We study a multistage, quality-then-price game between a public firm and a private firm. The
market consists of a set of consumers who have different quality valuations. The public firm …

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on student outcomes. We measure
managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us …

Prior research has identified a large number of factors that explain differences in scholastic
achievement. However, analyses of the educational performance of students from immigrant …

En este artículo se identifican los principales condicionantes de la adquisición de
competencias en América Latina. Se establecen como características individuales y …

We use the PISA 2006 results to analyse students' proficiency in EU countries with regard to
two indexes that represent the home background, viz the educational resources available at …