This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in …

-educated individuals earn more. This is usually interpreted as a proof that education raises labour productivity. Some macroeconomists …, analysing cross-country time series, also support the idea that the continuous expansion of education has contributed positively … the education-productivity-wage nexus. And the few published works considering firm-level evidence are lacking a proper …

Parental time with children increases with the education of both the mother and the father. As the education of parents …

for education, other characteristics such as income, employment and marital status do not help to close the gap. I … children. Moreover I have found that this effect diminishes as education increases. The transmission of fertility norms …

experiments show that using means-tested education subsidies is the most cost-effective single policy option. However, for longer … time horizons, or as the economy gets closer to the poverty trap threshold, combining means-tested education and wage …

fertility is close to that of married mothers; (2) why childlessness exhibits a U-shaped relationship with education for both … single and married women; and (3) why there is a hump-shaped relationship between marriage rates and education levels. We … show how family patterns have been shaped over time by the rise in education levels and wage inequality, and by the …