This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

to education for many non-market outcomes are greater for low-ability persons. College graduation decreases welfare use …This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we … estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non …

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences … of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … how patterns of educational inequality vary across countries, time, and generations, and establish a link between …

available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to administrative education records to study the …

differentiated impacts is that the water reform induces parents to make complementary investments in education that favor girls …

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …, taxes and transfers mitigate around 60% of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is attributable to employment and health …