climate conditions, geographical isolation and rich natural resources reserves. Northern investment risks in human capital … formation are proposed in the paper, as an indicator of investment conditions, which can be employed to improve policy of human … development in the northern regions of Russia. Northern investment risks encompass uncertainties associated with extreme northern …

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 …

enter higher education and/or the formal labor market (5.4 million graduates). I compare graduates within the same secondary … school and cohorts to estimate the premium of higher education. I estimate the sheepskin effect by exploiting the phenomenum … years of formal labor market experience. I also find high positive correlations between the quality of higher education …

-Murphy-Pierce decomposition analyses. On the one hand, over the past few decades, Chinese women have staged a 'quiet revolution' in education and … cognitive abilities, and especially after the large-scale higher education expansion since 1999, women have outperformed men in … older cohorts (the 1960s and 1970s birth cohorts). Despite the advantages in terms of education and cognitive abilities of …