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\" …

BACKGROUND Scant research explores the association between women's employment
and fertility on a truly global scale due to limited cross-national comparative standardized …

What is the relative importance of needs, entitlements, and nationality in people's social
preferences? To study this question, we conducted a real-effort dictator experiment where …

Youth is a crucial time of life when young people start realizing their aspirations, assuming
their economic independence and finding their place in society. The global jobs crisis has …

An emerging body of research has shown that there are large inequalities in access to
higher education in South Africa. There remains a gap, however, in identifying how factors …

This paper uses panel data from two new data sets on educational attainment to investigate
the effects of education on several development outcomes in African countries. I find that …

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the factors that affect employee performance in
non-profit organisations. The exploratory study was conducted within the Zimbabwean …

The expansion of female education has been promoted as a way to postpone the age at first
birth. In sub‐Saharan Africa, the first cohorts to benefit from policies that expanded access to …

While many studies examine the effect of primary education quality on labor market
outcomes in develo** countries, little is known about the effects at higher levels. We …

Low educational attainment, often a lack of a high school diploma or matriculation degree,
has been linked to negative health outcomes and lower quality of life for sexual and gender …