In spite of large structural expansions in higher education in Chile and Peru during the 1980s and 1990s, and a … favourable growth context, levels of inequality are still very high in both countries and inequities in higher education persist …. This paper investigates the role that higher education has played for social mobility in Chile and Peru. In particular, to …

ability, and the choice of education is determined endogenously. Job opportunities in an informal sector are available only to … workers who choose not to acquire higher education. We find that increased punishment of informal activities increases the …

. Consequently, too few workers may acquire skills. This allows for the possibility that subsidizing education is welfare improving …-between subsidizing education and thereby reducing unemployment and optimizing welfare may be eliminated. We analyse this issue in a …

different incentives to acquire education for the two ethnic groups. Using rich Danish administrative data, this paper finds … evidence that greater negative attitudes increase incentives for males to acquire education and that networking also increases … immigrant education. …