IZA World of Labor featured article: Estimating the return to schooling using the Mincer equation

 Even after his death, a Nobel prize-winning economist is taking on inequality

 Results-Based Financing Around the World: China: Understanding Effective Teaching Practices: RBF Around the World note and Full length paper | Indonesia: Results of Performance-Based School Grants Experiment: RBF Around the World note and Full length paper

Marawi conflict one year on: More than 300,000 Filipinos still displaced, 30,000 children yet to return to school

George Psacharopoulos, human capital theory and the economics of education changed the intellectual debate on education at the World Bank and beyond

Deepening Evidence and Developing Tools for Global Progress in Education  The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is launching a Global Education Learning Strategy, investing $68 million over four years.  They will center their work in India and a few countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and work with local partners to provide education systems with better information, evidence, tools, and approaches to improve teaching and learning in primary and secondary education—with an emphasis on foundational learning in primary grades