participation is responsible for the fall in fertility. On the contrary, the instability of women’s work status (i.e. having … variables are women’s age, men’s work status and education, women’s citizenship, marital status and perceived economic well-being. …

compositions of educational attainment and race. We find that a higher number of homosexuals in relatively higher educated areas is … influence and negative influence is lower when the number of black residents increases. This suggests that education is … associated with a greater revealed tolerance for homosexuals, but the influence of education is less for areas with a higher …

This paper focuses on the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital in an economy characterized by two … types of workers, low- and high-skilled. This heterogeneity allows an endogenous analysis of inequality generated by child … between child labour and inequality. The basic intuition behind this result arises from the interdependence between child …

fertility. The major finding through the random effects approach is that the social trust increases the fertility rate. A 1 …% rise in the trust rate leads to an increase in fertility by 0.01 points. The results presented here suggest that in …

democracy; the challenges are a large (but decreasing) poor population, a high degree of inequality in social opportunities and … residence, ethnicity, maternal education, poverty and in some cases gender diminish over time through concerted policies and …

high levels of income inequality continuously debated. When solutions are discussed, one of the more frequently recited … policy prescriptions is to expand the supply of education within the economy. Through utilisation of socio-economic profiles … progressive public higher education establishments, the data indicates that, between1987- 2010, the Brazilian education system …

In this paper, we address the issue of how education affected income inequality in twentieth-century Africa. Three … channels are identified through which education may affect income inequality. First, an increase in the average educational … educational inequality may, given a positive correlation between education level and income, reduce income inequality. Thirdly, an …

-sharing between the two generations, so that poor families experience higher agency costs, therefore inequality persists. …

We develop a model in which individuals choose education to improve their earnings and regulate the cultural traits … they acquire via social transmission. When education makes individuals more receptive to mainstream culture, minority … groups underinvest in education as a form of cultural resistance. Economic and cultural incentives interact in surprising …