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 …

focus on disability and gender disparities. Surveys conducted in both countries utilize the Washington Group Child … disabilities (CWD), highlighting the challenges they face compared to their peers without disabilities (CWOD). Gender disparities … addressing the gender bias that disfavours girls, especially among disadvantaged children such as CWD. …

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … subsequent education one year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: Low-education individuals are most likely to profit … from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing …

education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … subsequent education one year after treatment. But effects are heterogeneous: Low- education individuals are most likely to … profit from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing …

market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We demonstrate that the same genetic score that predicts education … is also associated with higher wages, but only among individuals with a college education. Moreover, the genetic gradient …

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 …

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