birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate … inequality, and analyses several explanations for this result. A causal link is established by showing that the results are … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of …

outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in …

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 …

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between … in education, gender inequality in educational attainment has consistently been declining over time. The same consistent …

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …

equal distribution of education contributes significantly to reducing income inequality. Educational expansion is a major … stability contribute to reducing income inequality, while public spending on education helps to reduce educational inequality … factor in reducing educational inequality and thus income inequality. Public policies that improve social benefits and price …

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation … the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). The dominant assumption in the …, we find that public education spending goes disproportionately to the bottom half of the income distribution. A lump …

from each other. The imputed income from publicly provided education reduces inequality by between 3 and 4 Gini points and …Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the … poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods …

consumption expenditure (e.g., education, defense, and the general legal and administrative infrastructure). Because of data … some of the collective consumption expenditure is actually distributed. We focus on public spending on education, which … makes up about 5% of national income in most OECD countries. We find that, in Germany at least, education spending tends to …

This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish … the commonly used level of education. Hence, the mapping between education and marriage-market types matters crucially for … administrative data, we develop a novel categorization of marriage market types based on the starting wages and wage growth …