intergenerational mobility while the remaining three chapters focus on the importance of primary education, inequality in educational …

to generate new ideas and novel ways of thinking about human capital. Examining educational reforms, quality of education … and links between education and socio-economic environments, chapters contrast Western experiences and perspectives with … Korean education, including state, charter and private education, higher education and student loans and debt, and provide …

, and education. These are also the topics ofi nterest in the three Chapters of this dissertation. While the chapters are …