inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … analyse the association between parents? education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … convergence between males and females. The relationship between parental class and children?s education translates into earnings …

background. Thus, subgroups of the population seem to be confronted with binding budget constraints, although education is free …

This paper examines the 1997 additions to the Current Population Survey education question. These new questions allow … imputed ?highest grade completed? is one-tenth grade greater and the estimated return to education .6 to 1 percentage points …

In this paper education simultaneously affects growth and income inequality. More education does not necessarily … decrease inequality when the latter is assessed by the Lorenz dominance criterion. Increases in education first increase and … information on the nonlinear relationship between growth and education. …

aid has been increased attention to sorting in various aspects of life, especially in education. This paper examines the … extent to which merit-based aid exacerbates or ameliorates sorting by ability in higher education. We use panel data from … Peterson's Guide to Colleges and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) to evaluate this relationship. Our …

country with flat-rate benefits may reduce their investment in education. With suitably planned transfers between the two …

-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in education. There is evidence of sample … educational choices. Education is an important determinant of the success in the labour market. The instrumental variables used in … the selection equation the local unemployment rate, expected lifetime earnings and the opportunity cost of education have …

their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …