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 …

This paper studies optimal taxation of income and education when employers cannot observe workers' productivity and … workers signal their productivity to firms by choosing both quantity and quality of education. We characterize constrained …. Implementation through income and education dependent taxes is discussed, as well as education mandates. A key insight is that …

This Paper examines the interactions between household matching, inequality, and per capita income. We develop a model … the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the … data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from adult education for the period 1979-2004 and annual earnings 1982-2004. We … match samples of treated individuals, in adult education 1986-1989, and untreated on the propensity score. The timing of …

This Paper studies the design of education policies in a setting of successive generations with heterogeneous … individuals (high and low earning ability). Parents’ investment in education is motivated by warm-glow altruism and determines the … probability that a child has high ability. Education policies consist of a subsidy on private educational investments and possibly …

workers enjoy a better distribution of wages, but the attribution of the gap to wage inequality and human capital …

This paper shows that countries with high levels of "elitism" in higher-education are the countries displaying high … levels of inequality. In other words, a higher level of "elitism", i.e., large gap in quality of universities, and tight … higher Gini index. This paper shows that the Nordic countries display lower elitism in higher education as well as lower …