In this paper, we analyze how a weighted voting system introduced in 1862, which shifted the distribution of political … power from landowners to industrialists at local town meetings, affected investments in local public education. We use an … also economically substantial. For example, per capita spending on education increased by approximately 37% within 6 years …

inequality and high returns on tertiary education, academic achievement indexes throw up barriers to access to tertiary education …

to administrative education data. We find that FiF young people make up 18 percent of a recent cohort, comprising nearly … two-thirds of all university graduates. Comparing individuals with no parental higher education we show that ethnic …