crucial for economic growth. Thus, investing in education, R&D and innovation is essential for a country's prospects for …

development, education plays an important role at least in terms of building a system of values related to structural changes in …

, education, and earnings life histories merged from the SIPP survey and federal administrative sources. Using ordinary logit …

of education and tax policies in the presence of a large informal sector. I develop an overlapping-generation life …-cycle model with heterogeneous agents and incomplete markets, where agents make educational and occupational choices. Education is … costly but ensures a wage premium in the future. Education costs are partially subsidized by the government. Individuals …

taxation is optimal. The reason is that subsidizing labor income increases the incentive to invest in education and to work …

implications of the analytical framework. We conduct an empirical inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in …

Achieving progress in education is of fundamental importance for human development. Low levels of access to the … education system and in educational outcomes in developing countries are often accompanied by high inequality between countries … education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within countries, and also by gender …

an instrument allows to disentangle the pure effect of parental income from effects related to parental education, family … to raise schooling levels and to protect investment in children's education against transitory income shocks. Although …

Education is thought to be central to economic development. Yet, relatively little is known about how developing …

. Regarding years of formal education attained in young adulthood, boys whose fathers die before adolescence suffer the most …