The Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 changed the Higher Education system in the UK by giving all polytechnics … more. This implies that the abolition of the 'two-tier' education system has reduced inequality among Higher Education …

’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is … researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background …

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was … or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years nationally. We use detailed individual data on education … study the effect of the education reform on three main groups of outcomes: (i) mortality until age 60 for different causes …

The education reform movement includes efforts to raise teacher quality through stricter certification and licensing …

identify some of the key determinants of international student mobility among higher education policies. For this purpose we … advanced economies. We then study the effects of various higher education policies on the inflow of international students … using parametric as well as non-parametric statistical methods. We conclude that among higher education policies especially …

We investigate how the benefits of publicly financed higher education in Turkey are distributed among students with …

attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is … in educational attainment, but a lower immigrant rate of return attenuates education’s impact. Moreover, observable …