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Education and Democratic Preferences
(BID, 2009-06)This paper examines the causal link between education and democracy. Motivated by a model whereby educated individuals are in a better position to assess the effects of public policies and hence favor democracy where their ... -
Education and Disability
(UNESCO, 2017-02)The notion of equity is at the heart of the Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 4 on education. Analysis of disparities linked to disability has long been a challenge due to a scarcity of reliable and comparable ... -
Education and Disability : Analysis of Data from 49 Countries
(UNESCO, 2018-03)This paper examines educational disparities linked to disability based on data from 49 countries and territories for five education indicators: Proportion of 15- to 29-year-olds who ever attended school, Out-of-school ... -
Education and Obesity in Four OECD Countries
(OECD, 2009-12)An epidemic of obesity has been developing in virtually all OECD countries over the last 30 years. Existing evidence provides strong suggestions that such epidemic has affected certain social groups more than others. In ... -
Education Aspirations among Young People in Peru and their Perceptions of Barriers to Higher Education
(Young Lives, 2016-03)Results from the Young Lives survey show the existence of a gap between young people’s aspirations for higher education and their actual chances of accessing this level of education. This paper uses qualitative information ... -
Education at a Glance 2014 : OECD indicators
(OECD, 2014)Provides ample evidence of the critical role that education and skills play in fostering social progress. In addition to the usual data sources used for generating the OECD Education Indicators, this edition also draws on ... -
Education at a Glance 2015 : OECD indicators
(OECD, 2015)This new edition of Education at a Glance is published only a few weeks after world leaders defined the global ambitions for the next 15 years by adopting 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the United Nations Summit ... -
Education at a Glance 2017
(OECD, 2017)It provides key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; the financial and human resources invested in education; access, participation and progression in education; ... -
Education for All : Advancing Disability Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
(BID, 2019-04)This policy brief uses data from censuses and household surveys in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region to analyze the gaps in school attendance and completion rates between children and youth with and without ... -
Education for All? Measuring inequality of educational outcomes among 15-year-olds across 39 industrialized nations
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2016-04)Measuring inequality of learning outcomes in a way that provides meaningful benchmarks for national policy while retaining a focus on those students who are ‘hard to reach’ and ‘hard to teach’ is a challenging but vital ... -
Education for people and planet : Creating Sustainable Futures for all. Global Education Monitoring Report 2016
(UNESCO, 2016)This Report makes three messages starkly clear. Firstly, the urgent need for new approaches. On current trends only 70% of children in low income countries will complete primary school in 2030, a goal that should have been ... -
Education Interventions for Improving the Access to, and Quality of, Education in Low and Middle Income Countries : A Systematic Review
(The Campbell Collaboration, 2014-07)This review aims to build on the work already undertaken by Petrosino et al. (2013), but with inclusion criteria covering learning outcomes more comprehensively. We will also aim to assess how education interventions affect ... -
Education policy implementation : A literature review and proposed framework
(OECD, 2017-12)This literature review focuses on education policy implementation, its definition, processes and determinants. It aims to clarify what implementing policies involve in complex education systems to support policy work, ... -
Education resource projections in the context of sector-wide development planning
(UNESCO, 2005)It summarizes the presentations and debates of the participants in the “UNESCO Technical Workshop on Sector-Wide Education Resource Projections”, which UNESCO organized in Paris, France, from 6 to 10 June 2005. The World ... -
Education Trajectories : From Early Childhood to Early Adulthood in Peru
(Young Lives, 2016-11)Over the past few decades, every President in Peru has proclaimed education as a priority; yet, in spite of recent progress across several indicators, educational outcomes are still on average low, and gaps between students ... -
Education Trajectories in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam : From Early Childhood to Early Adulthood
(Young Lives, 2016-12)In this policy brief, the authors describe the educational trajectories of 12,000 children in total, across two cohorts: the Younger Cohort born around 1994 and the Older Cohort born around 2001, in Ethiopia, India, Peru ... -
Education transforms lives
(UNESCO, 2013)Education lights every stage of the journey to a better life, especially for the poor and the most vulnerable. Education’s unique power to act as a catalyst for wider development goals can only be fully realized, however, ... -
Education, Social Capital and the Accordion Effect
(John Wiley & Sons, 2014)The ‘accordion effect’ is an effect of language which allows us to describe one and the same thing more or less narrowly. Social capital has been conceived in terms of our access to institutional resources, but also in ... -
Educational and Skills-Based Interventions for Preventing Relationship and Dating Violence in Adolescents and Young Adults : A Systematic Review
(The Campbell Collaboration, 2013-11)Relationship and dating violence is a significant problem among adolescents and young adults. Relationship violence includes a range of violent behaviours, from verbal abuse to physical and sexual assault, and from threats ... -
Educational attainment : A snapshot of 50 years of trends in expanding education
(OECD, 2017-01)As a result of the rapid educational expansion in the aftermath of the Second World War the proportion of 25-34 year-olds with upper secondary education or higher has almost doubled across OECD countries, from 43% in 1965 ...