-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the … 1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

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

achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the … returns to human capital can be decisive in determining the outcome. The model provides a basis for distinguishing development …

private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign educated individuals … indeed foreign-educated individuals promote democracy in their home country, but only if the foreign education is acquired in …

The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra …

-marginal) switch to home production and the ensuing deadweight losses are large. Using a cross-country panel, we find that gender … differences in labour supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women, and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …

National Insurance Institute. The Paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …