This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish … ambition over time, which explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting trends are flat with … the commonly used level of education. Hence, the mapping between education and marriage-market types matters crucially for …

We examine changes in inequality in socio-emotional skills very early in life in two British cohorts born 30 years … activities, respectively. Using recent methodological advances in factor analysis, we establish comparability in the inequality … of these early skills across cohorts, but not in their average level. We document for the first time that inequality in …

Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …

Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …

of education inequality measures across age groups allows us to assess the effect of inter-generational education …We construct a new dataset of inequality in educational attainment by age and sex at the global level. The comparison … attainment trends on economic growth. Our results indicate that countries which are able to reduce the inequality of educational …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion … that rising earnings inequality is, at least in part, supply driven by rising skill inequality. …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion … that rising earnings inequality is, at least in part, supply driven by rising skill inequality. …