initial inequality in education. At the regional level, educational progress was generally more pro-poor in Asia and Latin … education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within …

dramatic augmentation of working population with vocational education relative to general education. This is consistent with … the recent literature, which argues that the ratio of vocational-to-general education tends to be higher in middle …-income countries. We explore an analytical approach to open up fresh insights into the composition of secondary education and prove the …

to compensate its costs. -- Early education ; demographic change ; inequality over the life span ; redistributive policy … reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation … transition until 2080. If policy aims at reducing the inequality of lifetime income among people of the same generation …

This review describes the research frontier on human capital and education in economics research. It delineates what is … aims. First, it draws out the implications for key education policy issues, highlighting which policy ideas can be …

also provides a novel microfoundation for peer effects, with empirical implications for welfare and different education …

to the pre-university education, as compared to the traditional education. The parents have the legal right to choose the … traditional education. The perceived quality of the existing educational alternatives, from the parents point of view, is high …, and that's why this alternatives are increasingly requested by the well-informed parents (mostly with a higher education …

on children's education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the … points. Moreover, households reduced education spending by 58% - particularly on school tuition. These effects are larger for …

This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980-1982 recession on education and income. Using confidential Census …