The position of women in Arab/Islamic societies has been the subject of numerous studies by sociologists, economists, historians, feminists and political scientists. With a remarkable consistency, almost all these studies claim that Arab/Muslim women suffer gross inequalities in many aspects of...

This paper presents evidence that returns to schooling in Libya are nonlinear. However, this evidence should not be taken as supporting the sheepskin effect. Although high-school graduation is associated with higher earnings over and above what is predicted by the linear model, other diploma...