economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …

policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed … information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these …

What explains the large cross-country variation in the wage premium for higher education? Economic analyses of wage … differentials by education point to technological change and globalisation, but we know little about the impact of different types … of public policies. We argue that public education spending and tax-transfer policies contain the spread of “education …

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …

Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …

new endogenous growth theory that suggests that increases in inequality can hurt growth. …