inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … analyse the association between parents' education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … convergence between males and females. The relationship between parental class and children's education translates into earnings …

This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … of educational outcomes. It also surveys the broader literature on education policies which provides a perspective on the … current policies in the field of education in Bihar. Finally, it makes a case for several policy initiatives that should be …

returns to schooling and over-education rates by country-of-origin. The key finding is that accounting for schooling quality … virtually eliminates native-immigrant gaps in returns to schooling and the incidence of over-education. The quality of human …

Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike … previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find … strong evidence of positive ability selection into all levels of post-secondary education for men and weaker positive …

investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by … over-education wage penalties have remained stable. This suggests that the labour market accommodated most of the large … over-education increases unemployment by three months but has no impact of the number of jobs held. Individual unobserved …

inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … analyze the association between parents' education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … convergence between males and females. The relationship between parental class and children's education translates into earnings …

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …

Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …