that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871. …

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor’s degree in Economics, arguably an …

We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of … distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in opposite directions in poor and rich economies. A mean preserving spread …

quality level of higher education and the way education is financed. We start by examining a closed economy. In the presence … of imperfect credit markets the education level with pure fee-financing is lower than the optimal level. If the credit … skilled mobile workers as tax-payers while - at least partially - free-riding on the other country’s provision of education …

the gender wage gap narrows by one fifth due to an increase by one standard deviation in the approval. Rejecting an … where the gender wage gap is smaller. …

This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … this difference is particularly large when workers move across firms. This gender mobility penalty is robust to the …, and is mainly found for voluntary job moves. Exploring the wage growth of job movers, we find that a significant gender …

This paper argues that the consumption value of education is an important motivation for the educational choice. While … controlling for ability, we document that individuals are willing to forego substantial future wage returns in order to acquire a … particular type of higher education. We document that the individuals who attended Teachers’ College in Norway during the 1960's …