. It is shown that the impediments for education created by social factors are similar to a market imperfection, and … publicly provided education may lead to a Pareto improvement. Policies affecting the share of skilled release a dynamic …

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

in education and discrimination in the labour market to hold. …

mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …

We study peer effects in education. We first develop a network model that predicts a relationship between own education … and peers’ education as measured by direct links in the social network. We then test this relationship using the four … education since a standard deviation increase in peers’ education attainment translates into roughly a 10 percent increase of a …

develop a simple network model where students first choose their friends and then decide how much effort they put in education … in the fourth wave in 2007-2008 (when adult). We find that there are strong and persistent peer effects in education but …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

education. First, people- and household-based effects (internal returns to education and household wage and education … externalities) generate socioeconomic incentives for people to get an education and work, which are stronger in countries with the … regional interpersonal income and educational inequality, also influence wages and education in different ways across welfare …

inter-group differences in education, household demographic structure, industrial structure and their related returns …