show that individuals with temporary disadvantages must exert greater effort to gain access to elite education. This …Elite skills have become crucial in today’s superstar economy. We develop a multi-period skillformation model where we … year become the superstars. We also show that if young students discount the future “too much”, high requirements to elite …

China has made impressive strides in education in recent decades, even though the accumulation of human capital has … lagged behind that of physical capital. Going forward, access to and quality of education will be key to sustain economic … number of problems. Access to pre-school education is still far from universal. Migrants’ children as well as rural and poor …

importance of human capital and education in economic growth. The time lag present causes additional restrictions in the …

dramatic augmentation of working population with vocational education relative to general education. This is consistent with … the recent literature, which argues that the ratio of vocational-to-general education tends to be higher in middle …-income countries. We explore an analytical approach to open up fresh insights into the composition of secondary education and prove the …

formation, little longevity, high child mortality, large fertility and a sluggish income and productivity growth to a modern … about fertility, education of their children and the type and intensity of the investments in their own education. These … decisions are affected by different dimensions of mortality and technological progress which change endogenously during the …

influence their own length of life (endogenous longevity). Without the ability of individuals to influence their longevity, the …