returns to education over time generate a considerable rise in household income inequality, but these price effects are partly … income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the U.S. and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find evidence of … positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the level of …

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women … specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains to marriage shifted from the production of household services and … commodities to investment in children. For some, these changes meant that marriage was no longer worth the costs of limited …

We use the 1997 Education Law in Turkey that increased compulsory formal schooling from five to eight years to study … the effect of women's education on a range of outcomes relating to women's fertility, their children's health and measures … children per women by 0.11. There is also some evidence of a decline in child mortality, caused by mother's education, but …

This paper considers the role that high levels of income inequality and low rates of social mobility play in driving …, who grow up in locations with greater levels of lower-tail income inequality and lower levels of social mobility are …, our empirical results indicate that high levels of lower-tail income inequality and low levels of social mobility hinder …

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …

inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …

Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K‐12 students …

This paper analyzes the impact of student loans for higher education on enrollment, dropout decisions, and earnings. We … SGL program increased the probability of enrollment and reduced the probability of dropping out from tertiary education … program. We attribute this negative result to the design of the SGL program, which has incentivized higher education …