top of the education and income distribution (upward mobility) has increased. On the other hand, for children whose …

-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …

Educational inequality undermines the pivotal role of education in increasing the ability of the poor to move up the … of higher-income students makes the college admission more selective and thus the college education more rewarding. All …

Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo … Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapter 2 … sheds light on the interaction of two inputs into the education production function: instruction time and teacher …

We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive … ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers …, compulsory education is implemented first and triggers the onset of market R&D. According to the British way, market R&D is …

For most of human history there existed a well-educated and innovative elite whereas mass education, market R&D, and … model for the very long run in which the individual-specific return to education is conceptualized as an compound of … determines whether an individual experiences education and a locally stable steady state at which education is determined by …

compared to persons from high-status families. This paper examines whether reforms in education can help to reduce the socio …) changes in the resources allocated to education between different socio-economic groups (reform effects) and (b) changes in … return which relate to the impact of education on turnout in different groups. We use this framework to analyze a reform of …