Consider the following facts. In 1950 the richest ten-percent of countries attained an average of 8 years of schooling … whereas the poorest ten-percent of countries attained 1.3 years, a 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling … declined to 2-fold. The fact is that schooling has increased faster in poor than in rich countries. What explains educational …

Consider the following facts. In 1950, the richest countries attained an average of 8 years of schooling whereas the … poorest countries 1.3 years, a large 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold because … schooling increased faster in poor than in rich countries. What explains educational attainment differences across countries and …

schooling whereas the poorest ten-percent of countries attained 1.3 years, a 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in … schooling declined to 2-fold. The fact is that schooling has increased faster in poor than in rich countries. What explains … United States, we find that the model accounts for 96 percent of the difference in schooling levels between rich and poor …

schooling. This empirical fact corroborates the use of the quantity-quality trade-off mechanism in theoretical models to …Schooling. This study estimates the respective contributions of schooling and income in determining the fertility …

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels …

Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) of the Bank of Italy we estimate binary choice models (probit and logit) with the primary aim … sector, mother with less than high secondary schooling (licenza media superiore). The role of family income in shaping … significant in the explanation of post-compulsory schooling in Italy where social and long-term and short-term family factors …

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels … forms of endogenous technology response to changes in schooling. We also quantify the upper bound for all economies with the …