strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly …

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative … university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university … returns and costs explains educational inequality in Germany. …

Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement …

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …

data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education - but not income or urbanization - is …

uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …

decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between …