education. Public education is favourable for growth because it increases the level of human capital and at the same time it … more political support for education; increased political rights are good for growth and also imply a more equal income …. The main results are that for a given structure of political rights, more inequality may be good for growth if it implies …

richer communities; thus average academic performance and income growth both fall. Yet it may still be possible for education …, which provides an integrated framework for analysing the local determinants of inequality and growth. Five main conclusions … emerge. First, minor differences in education technologies, preferences, or wealth, can lead to a high degree of …

This paper examines how economic stratification affects inequality and growth over time. It studies economies where …-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge spillovers). It compares growth and welfare when families are stratified into … slower growth in the short run, but to higher output or even productivity growth in the long run. This trade-off occurs in …

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 …

growth potential. In the model, at a good equilibrium a large number of children of well-educated parents take advantage of … achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …

model incorporates the assumption of subsistence consumption into the neo-classical exogenous growth model – yielding …

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007), estimate that improvements in health have no impact on growth or any factors of growth; in … particular, they find no impact of life expectancy increases on education. We argue that their pessimistic results with respect … the impact of life expectancy improvements on the average education of the whole population aged above 15, which evolves …