parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿ­mance. We find no effects on …' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of … between matÿ­ernal education and school outcomes. …

A simple classical-Marxian model of growth and distribution is developed in which education transforms low … who only receive wage income into one in which education and human capital play a major role. We show than an expansion in … education can have a positive effect on growth but by altering the distribution of income rather than by fostering technological …

education. First, the role of education in skill formation is considered and it is shown that an expansion in education will … workers to capitalists. Second, the model is extended analyze the broader political economic consequences of education on … class relations and class conflict. The model suggests the importance of a progressive type of education rather than one …

The economic returns to education in transition countries have been extensively evaluated in the literature. The … present study contributes to this literature by estimating the returns to education in Georgia during the last transition … period 2000-04. We find very low returns to education in Georgia and little evidence of an increasing trend in the returns …

insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …