How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from the …

market outcomes in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We demonstrate that the same genetic score that predicts education … is also associated with higher wages, but only among individuals with a college education. Moreover, the genetic gradient …

Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …

This study considers how education and globalization affect income inequality in Asia, with unbalanced panel data. The …, while educational inequality, measured by the education Gini index, has a negative effect on income distribution. Higher … evidence supports the validity of Kuznets' inverted-U hypothesis for the connection between income level and income inequality …

Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …

from attending high-quality schools, thus allowing families with high initial wealth to access better education at a lower … cost. This paper provides a new perspective on the results of education equalization programs in terms of educational and …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low …

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. …