inequality lead to longer delays in the extension of primary schooling. We then investigate whether such delays affect long …-run economic performance via their effect on contemporaneous schooling. Our findings suggest that land inequality is a key … determinant of delays in schooling, and that such delays have a significant negative impact on long-run output. …

The paper aims at studying determinants of schooling in traditional hierarchical societies confronted with an … children who do not belong to the ruling caste, migration is a social mobility factor that is enhanced by formal schooling …

inequality lead to longer delays in the extension of primary schooling. We then investigate whether such delays affect long …-run economic performance via their effect on contemporaneous schooling. Our findings suggest that land inequality is a key … determinant of delays in schooling, and that such delays have a significant negative impact on long-run output. …

Many studies document significantly positive associations between schooling attainment and wages in developing … countries. But when individuals enter occupations subsequent to completing their schooling, they not only face an expected work … there may be compensating wage differentials. This study examines the relations between schooling on one hand and mean wages …

characteristics have significant effects on the schooling attainment of Egyptian children. Our analysis finds that relative to a male … child, female and rural children are not only less likely to have the right schooling for age, but birth order and sibling … characteristics also affect these two groups more adversely. Our empirical results show that schooling outcomes are better for earlier …

schooling outcomes, using household level cross-section data from Egypt. Our empirical analysis finds strong evidence for the … hypothesis that being male and living in urban areas significantly improves schooling outcomes. We show that relative to a female … two and a half times more likely to have some schooling. Interestingly, the adverse effect of gender is greater in rural …

A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under … to schooling available in the literature. …