variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income … household was associated with lower risk of poverty. Race, however, interacted with parental education attainment on household-income … encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra …

Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in … administered by the Danish Ministry of Education. Our results indicate that fetal exposure to Ramadan has a negative impact on the …

The paper enriches a standard signaling model of education with issues of social distance defined over educational … growing average level of schooling. As education rises, signals get noisy and potentially harmful for what concerns firms … these dynamics are in line with recent trends and other stylized facts about education. …

contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …, the effects of education and occupation on permanent work incapacity are generally insignificant. -- work incapacity …