This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

We show that gender inequality decreases the variety of goods countries produce and export, in particular in low …-income and developing countries. We argue that this happens through at least two channels: first, gender gaps in opportunity … of human capital available in an economy. Second, gender gaps in the labor market impede the development of new ideas by …

by raising their skill levels. This is the most effective way to get people out of poverty. Education is the area where … is increasing rapidly, and to close the gender gap in the labour market. The health and pension systems play a …

. Women face disadvantage in accessing management positions and entrepreneurship. A range of policies can help reduce gender … upskilling on return from parental leave, encouraging gender equality within firms, integration programmes for foreign-born women … dimensions and root causes of gender inequality call for mainstreaming gender across policy domains. …

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 …

of education inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education …

Education is generally believed to be beneficial in fostering, independent of gender, higher labor productivity. Female … enhancing female education and reducing gender education inequality on various measures of sustainable development. After … addressing the endogeneity issue associated with gender education inequality employing a novel instrumental variable (IV), we …

We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary …-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and reduce earning inequalities between workers, but only by transferring income … from workers to capitalists. Further, the overall effect of an increase in education depends on the actual characteristics …