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

unemployment rates. It may be the case that this locus is steep enough to generate increasing returns to education. This may lead … to multiple equilibria: a high-education equilibrium may coexist with a low-education equilibrium. In the former, the … Pareto-ranked, but the latter is preferred to the former by workers, while `savers' prefer the high-education equilibrium. …

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

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the …, inequality will then be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Furthermore, if the poor are liquidity … constrained then the positive association between inequality and fiscal conservatism will increase the persistence in the dynamics …

and income inequality on the incentives of the incumbent party to pursue entrenchment policies. The importance of our …

steady states arise because rents to human capital are self perpetuating. Inequality in abilities may be good for growth … because it allows inframarginal workers to earn rents on their human capital, which then increase savings. Public education is …