tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education’s equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of …

This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …