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Estimating the social return to higher education: evidence from longitudinal and repeated cross-sectional data
Economics Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2004Economists have speculated for at least a century that the social return to education may exceed the private return.DocumentThe investment payoff: a 50-state analysis of the public and private benefits of higher education
Institute for Higher Education Policy, USA, 2005Does college matter? In the last few years, a number of important eff orts have been made to better articulate the benefits that result from the investment in higher education, both to individual students and to society.DocumentAre there civic returns to education?
Advice on Accessing Journal Articles, 2004This study attempts to locate empirical evidence on this policy-relevant issue by identifying the causal effects of additional schooling on civic behaviors and knowledge. The research designs adopted here essentially parallel the extensive, empirical literature on the labor-market returns to schooling .DocumentGlobal trade and development
Center for Global Development, USA, 2006This briefing paper considers the different ways in which trade affects development and global poverty, focusing particularly on the effects on economic integration on America.DocumentMaking sense of food security measurements
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Reducing hunger and food insecurity is central to the Millennium Development Goals. Monitoring progress towards targets requires simple, quick and reliable methods. However, this has proved difficult for both researchers and practitioners.Documentid21 viewpoint - Litigating for climate justice
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Litigation (legal action) for justice over climate change is an immense global issue which is likely to increase in the future. The complexities of legal systems are a disadvantage for poor communities, who often suffer the most serious impacts of climate change. Is it worth these people going to court over climate change?DocumentGlobal trade, jobs and labour standards
Center for Global Development, USA, 2006This issue brief highlights some of the complexities in the relationship between global trade, availability of employment, and labour standards in America. The brief points out that there are both negative and positive aspects of the increase in global trade. For instance, the increase in less expensive imports in the US has resulted in the loss of millions of job in the manufacturing industry.DocumentThe war over women's wombs escalates
2006The religious right's drive to smash reproductive freedom, is bad news for all women, yet affects some groups more profoundly. Poor women are taking the hardest hits. Between 1994-2006, unwanted pregnancies in the USA rose by 29 percent for low income women; and declined 20 percent for the better off.DocumentCommerce, crime and conflict: legal remedies for private sector liability for grave breaches of international law
Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2006Based on a number of surveys examining the jurisprudence of a total of sixteen nations - Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine, UK, and USA - this report examines the issue of impunity of companies regarding economic activities linked to human rights abuses and armed conflict.DocumentSwept under the rug: abuses against domestic workers around the world
Human Rights Watch, 2006Abuses of children and women domestic workers - many of them migrant workers - are widespread, but increased awareness of the problem has not yet resulted in concerted government action to address it.Pages