This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...

This paper provides two contributions to the study of intergenerational mobility. First, we render a thorough characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a three-generation mobility analysis. We find that the education mobility is significantly lower in...

We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...

We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to encourage college completion, such as making college free and improving funding for public schooling. To do so, we construct a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with...

Education in Mexico expanded rapidly over the past several generations. We use data from the 1994 Gender, Age, Family and Work household survey to document the "anatomy" of Mexico's educational expansion. The survey is to our knowledge the first in Mexico that also gathered additional data on...

Demand for schooling had dramatically increased and there are overwhelming number of graduate and new entrants admitting particular level of colleges and universities degree to receive the full rewards associated with educational qualification. therefore, this paper had examined the interlinkage...