We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of … individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate … education, as a supplement to the labor income tax. …

education of the population increases the correlation between non-gravity trade and income inequality becomes smaller. Non …-gravity trade has no significant effect on income inequality in countries that are world leaders in education. …

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative …

income for different education groups and to estimate the level of consumption smoothing. We split households into three … groups based on educational attainment: primary education, secondary school, and university. We find that the university … with less education. This implies that investing in education is an investment not only in higher income and sometimes more …

education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption …

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …