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 …

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 …

officials' handling of a large education grant program. Combining survey and administrative data, we show that the campaign was …

exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify … institutional conditions of the education system that contribute to educational integration. Using data from five international …)integration is related to institutional characteristics of the schooling system. The study shows that early education, time in school …

In 2012, the Brazilian government passed a law that mandated all federal higher education institutions to implement a …

This paper investigates whether individual decisions lead to equality of opportunity in education, defined in the …

at the lower and upper tails of the income distribution. While Latin America has improved education mobility in recent …, lower education mobility than in developed countries. The paper also reviews studies on the main determinants of the region …'s low levels of social mobility, including social exclusion, low access to higher education, and labor market discrimination. …