We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioural problems … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional … may transmit the effect of maternal education to the child, including family environment and parental investments at …

The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether … program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the country’s education budget. We find large positive effects on test …

A number of studies have shown that education reforms extending compulsory schooling reduce criminal behavior of those …

This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the … early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the … in real earnings across the entire distribution for men and women and decreasing inequality over more than 20 years …

convincing evidence of an increase in inequality within education groups, changes in the ‘return’ to education and increases in …

the two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves …