inequality in Greece is strong. Inequities are evident at all levels of the education system; especially as regards access to the … not been examined in detail. -- education ; inequality ; Greece … income and influences the probability of poverty. Nevertheless, so far, several links between education and inequality have …

This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across … neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyses the efficiency and welfare …

The changes made to Australian higher education financing in the 1996-97 Budget are arguable the most significant since …

it has taken place, attention needs to be given to a whole range of issues. These include : scale of higher education …, funding, university/government relations, research, diversity, quality, higher education and vocational education and training …. The reforms that have occurred in the Astralian higher education sector in recent years, and those that are currently …

The paper studies the optimal education policy of a budget-constrained utilitarian government. Households differ in … information. Households can choose to use private education, but cannot borrow to finance it. The results we obtain are striking …. The optimal education policy is elitist: it increases the spread between the education achievement of the bright and the …

because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility. …

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …

discrete choice model of simultaneous education, work, and student loan take-up decisions. We use administrative panel data and …

threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …