reform of the Welfare State are outlined. …

Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is found to be a very powerful predictor of their children’s educational attainments … men moderately, but the effects on young women’s education are small. Part, if not all, of this negative effect of living …

. It is shown that the impediments for education created by social factors are similar to a market imperfection, and … publicly provided education may lead to a Pareto improvement. Policies affecting the share of skilled release a dynamic …

's compulsory schooling reform as an instrument for years of schooling and a 25 percent random sample from Sweden … differences-in-differences design to account for the non-random implementation of the reform across municipalities, and finds that … exposure to the reform increased average educational attainment by 0.28 years for males and 0.16 years for females. Our 2SLS …

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain …

parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility …, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We … wages from the end of statutory schooling. We use the model to evaluate the life-cycle return to apprenticeship training and …

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

unemployment rates. It may be the case that this locus is steep enough to generate increasing returns to education. This may lead … to multiple equilibria: a high-education equilibrium may coexist with a low-education equilibrium. In the former, the … Pareto-ranked, but the latter is preferred to the former by workers, while `savers' prefer the high-education equilibrium. …

, and uses these variables as instruments to estimate returns to education, with the help of a rich set of individual data …. Our sample includes more than 12,000 men and 10,000 women, who all left school in 1992, in France. The wages and … two stage method is used to estimate log-wage equations, taking care of education endogeneity, using birth order and the …