schooling systems around the world. We measure this performance through pupils achievement in standardized tests. We merge all … primary education and 111 countries/areas in secondary education between 1965 and 2010 …

We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational … inequality persistency. It is firstly outlined that the critical increase in the population education level in all countries has … not come with lower inequality. The basic tools of education and intergenerational mobility modelling are subsequently …

educational choices. Individuals decide whether to invest in additional education according to their expectations regarding future …. Then, we analyse the long-term implications of a public policy that would favour education and make it possible to select …

lottery question, we investigate if (and to what extent) risk aversion can explain differences in schooling attainments. We … formulate the schooling decision process as a reduced-form dynamic discrete choice. The model is estimated with a degree of … persistent unobserved (to the econometrician) heterogeneity. We present evidence that schooling attainments decrease with risk …

The purpose is to provide some empirical evidence for promoting new insights into the economics of education … impact on fixed earnings and flexible pay of the traditional human capital theory variables (education and experience) on the … (years of schooling, years of labour market experience) and competences substitute or complement each other in the definition …

lottery question, we investigate if (and to what extent) risk aversion can explain differences in schooling attainments. We … formulate the schooling decision process as a reduced-form dynamic discrete choice. The model is estimated with a degree of … unobserved (to the econometrician) heterogeneity. We present evidence that schooling attainments decrease with risk aversion, but …