Publisher Summary This chapter reviews recent advances in the empirical literature on the
role that households and families play in investing in human resources. It describes the …

This study provides estimates of the returns to schooling in urban China over an extended
period of economic reforms. We find a dramatic increase in the returns to education, from …

The connections between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD) form two
chains. Crosscountry regressions show a significant relationship in both directions, with …

The new updated edition of Children, Youth and Development explores the varied ways in
which global processes in the form of development policies, economic and cultural …

This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey.
Although high levels of enrollments have been achieved at the primary school level for both …

The hypothesis that increases in the schooling of women enhance the human capital of the
next generation and thus make a unique contribution to economic growth is assessed on the …

In this paper, we explore the conditions of childhood that can lead to poverty throughout the
lifecourse and affect transfers of poverty to the next generation. The largely inconclusive …

The stronger are the associations between household income and child schooling, the lower
is intergenerational social mobility and the less equal is opportunity. This study estimates the …

This evidence brief summarises the findings from a rigorous review conducted by Oketch,
McCowan and Schendel (2014), entitled\" The impact of tertiary education on development\" …

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the
world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 …