Research Guides: ECON 331: Human Capital Accumulation and Development (BMC): Think Tanks & Policy Papers

Reports & Policy Papers

Brookings Institution
Search for research and publications from this nonprofit public policy organization. Use the search filters to focus in on formats like Reports and Books, while filtering out more ephemeral items like blog posts and news snippets.
Mathematica Policy Research
Search the publications of this research firm focused on public well being in the areas of education, family support, health, and labor. Other companies providing research services to the United States government also make many of their reports available to the public. See Westat, MDRC, and RTI International as examples.

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
NBER Working Papers is published by National Bureau of Economic Research, the nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization. Approximately 500 working papers are published each year and comprise an important source of information on a broad range of economic topics. Available online from 1973-present.

National Center for Education Statistics -- Condition of Education Reports
Condition of Education is an annual publication from the NCES summarizing the most requested statistics on Education in the United States. See, in particular, the section on Economic Outcomes.
OECD Education
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's Education portal lists working papers and books on education and development. View by country to target your region of interest. Also note, in particular, the Labour markets, human capital and inequality subtopic and the Reviews of National Policies for Education report series (read online access only).

PolicyFile
Provides online access to abstracts and full-text articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.Covers a wide range of topics. Try a search such as Keyword=(education AND economic) OR "human capital".

Rand Corporation - Published Research
Rand Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank, originally formed to advise the U.S. Armed Forces on defense issues, their work has expanded to cover non-defense topics as well. Try the Advanced Search for "Documents Only" to refine your search.
UNESCO Education for the 21st Century
UNESCO's portal for global education issues has many links to reports and data sources relevant to the economics of education. See, in particular, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report series.
UNESDOC
The UNESCO publications citation database. Use Advanced search --> Keyword --> List link to look up keywords in their Thesaurus. A search for Keyword="Economics of education" will produce many relevant results. Some of the articles have open access to full text right in UNESDOC. For other results that are citation-only, search the title of the article in Google Scholar and use the FindIt at Bryn Mawr links to check for full-text access.
World Bank Publications
Combined search for the World Bank's publication repositories. The Open Knowledge Repository and Documents & Reports have open access to full text. The eLibrary is restricted-access, but many of the titles here will be found in Tripod as print books or e-books.