. It is shown that the impediments for education created by social factors are similar to a market imperfection, and … publicly provided education may lead to a Pareto improvement. Policies affecting the share of skilled release a dynamic …

achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …

Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is found to be a very powerful predictor of their children’s educational attainments … men moderately, but the effects on young women’s education are small. Part, if not all, of this negative effect of living …

the role of ability, technological progress increases wage inequality within each group of education as well as between … child's ability we show the following set of results: (a) Controlling for education of the child, parents' education …'s education increases from the 1970s to the 1980s. (c) The return to college education to the individual who has no ability rents …

education levels. In this paper we provide evidence on this empirical puzzle, and offer a theoretical explanation building …

correlation between wage inequality and mobility. Public subsidies to education reduce inequality, but the effect on mobility is …, the relationship between public support for education and mobility can follow an inverted U-pattern. The model can thus …

performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students … differ not only in terms of their families’ ability to pay but also in terms of their own ability to take advantage of … public schools than for those who choose to pay for private education. …