"Highlights costs of inadequate education, attaching hard numbers to the relationship between educational attainment … policy interventions to boost the education system's performance and explains why demographic trends are so challenging to …The education attainment gap : who's affected, how much, and why it matters / Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin …

Education, the most easily measured form of human capital, is, like land and other forms of wealth, an asset. Once … education is more equally distributed than other assets, the total concentration of all assets declines. This paper sets out the … inequality; high income inequality has contributed to low and unequal accumulation of education; and low and unequal accumulation …