achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …

We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several …

the two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves …

This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across …. It discusses the implications of different education finance systems for sorting and analyses the efficiency and welfare …

the equilibrium sorting of spouses by skill type (their correlation in education) is increasing as a function of the skill … premium and of the degree of correlation of spouses’ education (marital sorting). For all our measures, we find a positive and …

This paper surveys the empirical literature on the growth effects of education and social capital. The main focus is on … clarify where empirical work on education using macro data may be relatively useful. It is argued that on balance, the recent … cross-country evidence points to productivity benefits of education that are at least as large as those identified by labour …

. However, if factories under communism were so inefficient, why would the education system not have been? Using the education …