We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …

number of graduates. We use each pupil's comprehensive school grades to control for previous education / pupil quality. Also …

because they achieve higher numeracy test scores than girls with the same education-related characteristics. …

lives. The return to education varies greatly by institutional quality, discipline, and individual characteristics …

in migrant parents' socio-economic background, cultural capital, and language skills. Education policy needs to focus on …-born populations. With the wealth of many industrialized countries threatened by a lack of qualified labor, education of immigrants …

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

-course information. Exploiting the advantages of the projected data, the authors compare the returns to education - measured in terms of …