This Paper studies the design of education policies in a setting of successive generations with heterogeneous … individuals (high and low earning ability). Parents’ investment in education is motivated by warm-glow altruism and determines the … probability that a child has high ability. Education policies consist of a subsidy on private educational investments and possibly …

strengthens the forces of comparative advantage. Finally, we examine an aspect of education policy concerning the spread of human …

Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is found to be a very powerful predictor of their children’s educational attainments …The analysis uses a unique set of data matching mothers and their young adult children to study the impact of family … men moderately, but the effects on young women’s education are small. Part, if not all, of this negative effect of living …

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 …

emerge. First, minor differences in education technologies, preferences, or wealth, can lead to a high degree of … inequality in education and income more persistent across generations. Whether the same is true of inequality in total wealth … richer communities; thus average academic performance and income growth both fall. Yet it may still be possible for education …

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

particular when comparing local and national funding of education, which correspond to special cases of segregation and …

numerical techniques, a model based on human capital accumulation through education, and we find that the increase in … precautionary savings makes labour more productive in the goods sector and draws resources from education, which is the "growth …