income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

hypotheses. First, there is no disparity in the income and returns to education benefits of the shift to democracy across gender … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education … democracy, gender differences exist. Specifically, I find on average higher income benefits for men post democracy. Nigeria …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …

2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university …

of the Georgian labor force relies on self-employment as the primary means to earn an income. For some, this is an avenue …

complementarities in skill formation. Investments in the human capital of children should expand relative to investment in older workers …