Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …

affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labour … attendance or education-related household expenditures. …

British workers. We therefore suggest that the minimum wage has the potential to reduce wages inequality in the longer …

increasing returns to education at the labor market participation margin, and that these depend directly on the elasticity of … labor supply with respect to wages. Thus the increasing returns to education problem will be most relevant for women or …

parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

the quality of the neighborhood in terms of human capital, the higher the parent’s involvement in children’s education …, indicating cultural complementarity. For highly educated parents, we also find that both parents’ involvement in education and … neighborhood’s quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of education, the former being more potent than the …