with the Pill, we speculate, may have provided women with the means to pursue higher education at a time of limited student …

colleagues employed in the same occupation. On balance, women's noncognitive skills give them a slight wage advantage. Finally …

-collar occupation, but training increases the mean offered wage in white-collar occupation by 19%. Training also substantially increases …

and general education, with a superior social status attached to general. The resulting dynamic political equilibrium is … best summarized by the ratio of vocational to general education, which we interpret as a measure of the degree of … income growth, wealth inequality and political participation. We predict that developing countries will tend to overinvest in …

education instead. The theory hence predicts that the social status of the family has a significant impact on educational choice …

The paper provides SVAR estimates for four open economies: the UK, Canada, Sweden and Denmark, making explicit a … another: monetary union appears easy to recommend for Sweden and Denmark, much less so for Canada and the UK. …

, households will revise upwards their estimate of their permanent income, and will raise current and planned consumption. Only the … exercise in fiscal rectitude of the 1980s and focusing on its two most extreme cases, Denmark and Ireland. We find that at …