human capital inequality and technology adoption decisions. …

This paper describes the long-term global trends in education inequality since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling …. Within countries, we find evidence of an inverted U-shape curve for human capital inequality over time, namely a Kuznets … curve for human capital. At the global level, the world inequality in human capital has followed a similar trajectory, first …

Survey to examine how spending changed from the early 1970s to the late 2000s, focusing particularly on inequality in … parental investment in children. Parental spending increased, as did inequality of investment. We also investigate shifts in …

types of workers, low- and high-skilled. This heterogeneity allows an endogenous analysis of inequality generated by child … between child labour and inequality. The basic intuition behind this result arises from the interdependence between child …

Following Galor and Zeira (1993), we study the effect of the world interest rate on inequality and growth for the … Galor and Zeira model: 1) a reduction of the world interest rates increases inequality in rich countries and decreases … inequality in poor countries; 2) inequality has a negative (and significant) effect on hu- man capital accumulation in rich …

between these two objectives. This volume shows how reforms can address the urgent issue of inequality without undermining …

Inequality in access to education is known to be a key driver of income inequality in developing countries. Viet Nam, a …