education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …

This Special Issue considers education as a social policy in its own right, from a life-course perspective and in … relation to other policy areas. It recognizes the complexity of education systems and their multi-stage architecture. The … volume broadens our understanding of the role of ‘education as social policy’ by addressing four different aspects: the …

introduced in 2011. Additional investments into secondary education will, as a rule, not cause life time income to raise enough … to compensate its costs. -- Early education ; demographic change ; inequality over the life span ; redistributive policy …