-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

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 …

examines how it affected women’s education and labour choices. We present empirical evidence based on GSS data that favours our …

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 …

, and uses these variables as instruments to estimate returns to education, with the help of a rich set of individual data … two stage method is used to estimate log-wage equations, taking care of education endogeneity, using birth order and the … number of siblings as instruments. The OLS estimates of returns to education are biased downwards, when females are …