education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported … enrolment rates. Our findings may have important implications for the current debate on the reform of financing higher education …

not enough to overturn my conclusions. Instrumentation reveals that reverse causality running from education to natural …

The paper is purported to analyze the impact of skill formation on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality using a few … variants of the HOS-type framework. It shows that the effect of skill formation on the wage inequality depends crucially upon … improvement measures to improve the skilled-unskilled wage inequality in the developing countries. …

mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children …'s school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …

to education for the poor during the economic crisis. Scholarships were targeted pro-poor and the allocation process … households' investments in education and utilisation of child labour. …

concentrate education's subsides at the basic school rather than at college education. …

education is no longer an individual exercise of present and future utility maximisation as suggested by more formal human …

inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two … large data bases of wage inequality that have become recently available and a large dataset of average tariff rates all …-industry inequality in poorer countries (those below the world median income) and the reverse in richer countries. The results for inter …