differences in parents' involvement in education. We find that a non-negligible part of the test score racial gap can be explained … by these cultural differences. In particular, we show that if non-white parents would invest in education of their 11 …

vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … case in point. Little attention has been given to examining the success of vocational education in raising the wages of … efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews of Eastern origin …

. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education system not have been? Using the education …

particular when comparing local and national funding of education, which correspond to special cases of segregation and …

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

education. First, people- and household-based effects (internal returns to education and household wage and education … externalities) generate socioeconomic incentives for people to get an education and work, which are stronger in countries with the … regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …

-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …