This paper investigates how upward mobility affects legislator voting behavior towards education policies. We develop … upward mobility. Using a newly compiled dataset of roll call voting on California education legislation matched with … electoral district-level upward mobility we find that the likelihood of a legislator voting "no" on redistributive education …

This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor … identify the causal effects of the reform. We find that the exposure to the free compulsory education significantly reduces the … additional semester of free compulsory education decreases the incidence of child labor for boys by 8.3 percentage points …

expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the … intention to pursue higher education. Moreover, the perceived consumption value can account for a substantial part of both the …

-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …

explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …

We study the effect of political regime change on higher education and its distributional and political consequences … education disproportionately affected applicants from less affluent backgrounds and plausibly contributed to the increase in …

persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … show that the education reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, exposed children born after 1986 to 3 … more years of schooling and reduced the effect of parental education on the completion probability of new compulsory …