(MFxLS). The results indicate important ethnic differences in human capital accumulation patterns, especially in education …

at the lower and upper tails of the income distribution. While Latin America has improved education mobility in recent …, lower education mobility than in developed countries. The paper also reviews studies on the main determinants of the region …'s low levels of social mobility, including social exclusion, low access to higher education, and labor market discrimination. …

the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for …

Girls typically have higher grades than boys in school and recent research suggests that part of this gender difference …

asymmetry and sensitivity of labor force participation decisions are found across gender, age, and education groups, and these …

The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that … developed countries. We add to this literature by studying the causal effect of education on days hospitalized and days out of … suggest that an increase in years of education causes to reduce the number of days hospitalized for both men and women …

have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …

Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady … the direction of correlation. This paper undertakes a similar study of the gender effects of education using province … level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …