The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens …. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational …

despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

influence the propensity of politicians to spend on education. Using a panel of the Swiss Cantons for the period from 1990 to … 2002, we find that the education system has exhibited little elasticity in adjusting to changes in the school … public education. …

would rather prefer to spend public resources on health and social security than on education. Furthermore the paper shows … spending on education at the local, state-wide or national level, trying to control for other exogenous effects. Although this … groups. The analysis shows that elderly people present a clear tendency to be less willing to spend money on education. They …

between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops is suggested by natural science literature. We use Indonesia as a case …

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann’s recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …

This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The … findings point at a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education (primary education) tends to promote terrorism … education (university education) reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests …