This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyses the efficiency and welfare …

financially support public education that would sustain their profit rates and would improve their economic well being, although …

incentives to invest optimally ex ante in education. …

parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … premium and of the degree of correlation of spouses’ education (marital sorting). For all our measures, we find a positive and …

enrollment in each year, in our exceptional data set. We control for father occupation, mother education and other variables …

finding is that over-investment in education may be even more of a problem in our mixed cooperative-non-cooperative model than …

teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal one-teacher schools in rural India, randomly chosen out of 120 (the … the treatment schools. When the schools were open, teachers were as likely to be teaching in both types of schools, and …