rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …

We seek to quantify the role of education as a mechanism through which family background affects earnings. To this end … through the pathway of education and through other mechanisms. The results suggest that educational attainment explains 24 …%-39% of the overall family background effect on earnings in Australia. The mediating role of education seems to be larger for …

How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting … decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … vocational-trades education and increasingly invest in college education. Our results highlight that labor demand changes impact …

benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that …

Even the most egalitarian education systems employ high-stakes tests to regulate the transition from universal … secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a …

strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …