Since 2011, Korean students above the poverty line have been eligible for free school meals. The authors of this paper hypothesize that increased homogeneity of eligibility reduces peer conflicts and school violence. Data from 5,853 schools in Korea reveal that shifting from selective to...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes...

Introduction: Social Justice and Education in the 21st Century -- Part I: Early Education and Schooling -- Chapter 1: Social Justice in the United States’ Early Education -- Chapter 2: Education and Labour Market Inequalities in South Africa -- Chapter 3: Reproducing Inequality in the South...