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 …

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

inequality in education and income more persistent across generations. Whether the same is true of inequality in total wealth …, which provides an integrated framework for analysing the local determinants of inequality and growth. Five main conclusions … emerge. First, minor differences in education technologies, preferences, or wealth, can lead to a high degree of …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage …

technical education. Although higher education is profitable, the marginal return of college is identical to that of technical … education when students are about 30 years old. The college premium seems to increase over time, possibly offsetting the initial …

, is a relatively inexpensive way of reducing inequality of opportunity across races, but the reduction in opportunity … inequality it achieves is very small. …