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 … find mitigating gender education inequality to be associated with lower infant mortality and poverty rates and improvements …

-satisfaction. This paper reviews the social progress that Costa Rica has achieved and identifies reducing inequality and poverty as the …

We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel … initial phase in which no social class invests in higher education of their children, such that the evolution of inequality is … education of their children, which partially crowds out bequests and thereby reduces inequality in the short run. The better …

on economic growth, inequality, and fiscal balance. Our empirical evidence suggests that human capital investments have a …

of worker. Our analysis reveals that the effects of a liberalization on human capital accumulation, income and inequality … 20 percent in the shortrun, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality decreases … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …

This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the … empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the … forces that determine inequality change, focusing on factor accumulation and structural change. Next it considers the …

We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel … initial phase in which no social class invests in higher education of their children such that inequality is driven by … partially crowds out bequests and thereby reduces income inequality and inheritance flows in the short run. The better educated …

as a development success story. Poverty has fallen impressively and inequality is on a downwards trend, but more efforts …