We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

Many authors have recently suggested that the heterogeneity in the quality of early education may be one of the key …-1977 significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. The reform shifted the tracking … age in secondary education from age 10 to 16 and imposed a uniform academic curriculum on entire cohorts until the end of …

' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …'s education has a small positive effect. Tracking the work experience of parents during offspring childhood, we find no support …

This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that … tertiary education students and graduates. Existing evidence suggests that this pattern is a result of a combination of … increasing returns to education and lower female effort costs of education. Widening gender gap in education combined with recent …

market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …

variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …