Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education … and complex impacts through various channels: a direct increase in the private costs of higher education, a reduction in …

type of involvement and the gender of the parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlier poverty …, especially at age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest in school at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education …. The frequency of outings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education than outings with father …

, individual occupational choices and education decisions, we show that the distribution of incomes was being affected, on the one … hand, by a decline in average returns to both education and experience, a negative ?growth? effect and immiserizing changes …

Together with the economic transition, in China the return to education and the skill premium increased; this … inequalities at national, regional and sector level. For this reason, these studies underlined the relevant role of education in … education distribution. In particular, we exploit the Theil index decomposition properties to distinguish between distributive …

We examine whether there is an inequality of opportunity to achieve higher education, partially explained by … inequality of opportunity gap (mother's education being the largest factor at 30 percent). Interestingly, economic insecurity is …

. Similarly to international evidence, we found that education, age, family size, employment and occupation of the household head …'s student enrollment rates over different generations improved considerably, reducing the education-gap compared to Arab men … indirect effect toward the completion of schooling, thus keeping mothers’ fertility relatively high and reducing education …

for the true impact of income on education. Our results indicate that income has a causal relationship with educational …

Wellbeing Study, I examine the prevalence of obtaining additional education (N=3812) in the five years after a birth …. Controlling for mothers? background and resources, married mothers are less likely to obtain additional education. Cohabiting … dissolution or divorce are also more likely to obtain additional education. Postnatal educational attainment appears to be an …

I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d … subject to debate in this country. Various hypotheses concerning the evolution of returns to education and labour demand are … tested. The direct effects between education and income as well as the different transmission channels, such as occupational …

Wellbeing Study, I examine the prevalence of obtaining additional education (N=3812) in the five years after a birth …. Controlling for mothers? background and resources, married mothers are less likely to obtain additional education. Cohabiting … dissolution or divorce are also more likely to obtain additional education. Postnatal educational attainment appears to be an …