are negligible. Second, among composition effects, education has an inequality-reducing impact, while the increase in … clear cut policy implication is that policies enhancing education and economic performance contribute to reduce happiness …

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their … education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional perspective the overall result is the expected levelling effect. When … non-compulsory education, thus negating any social equalisation effects achieved within the compulsory education framework. …

control for many individual/family specific attributes, such as age, gender, education, number of children, work and marital …

inequality in skills, education, opportunities, happiness, health, wealth, and others. The direct and indirect effects of …

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between … 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force …'s education, stigmas against educated women engaging in menial work, and falling selectivity of highly educated women. On the …

In the past twenty years, India's economy has grown at increasing rates and now belongs to the fastest …-growing economies in the world. This paper examines drivers of female labor force participation in urban India between 1987 and 2004 … earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than …