This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

regular siblings explain 33 percent of the variance in educational attainment between individuals, with parental education … factors that do not correlate with parental education. Strikingly, despite pervasive changes in the distribution of … be roughly stable across cohorts. Despite a reduction in overall education inequality, we conclude that family background …

ability are higher in higher control environments. This provides a theoretical underpinning for the control-based explanation …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …