-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in … productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …

(generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this chapter, we study education inequality in … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …Education is a crucial asset for a country's economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct …

male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage …

documenting the broad patterns of national and sub-national differences in income and inequality, building on the seminal … contributions of Engerman and Sokoloff (2000; 2002, 2005) and aiming to capture different dimensions of inequality. We then proceed …, education and the role of elites. Finally, we conduct a "replication" exercise with some seminal papers in the literature …

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the … redistribution kept the gap in disposable income between those same households roughly constant, while also closing the gap between … some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …

Higher education policy potentially has an important role in improving intergenerational income mobility. We use rich … administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education. We …-level mobility statistics with higher education policy is very difficult. However, there is considerable scope to narrow gaps in …

education ‘degrees’ (subject-institution combinations) in the United King-dom. Conditioning on a rich set background …

country for men, and more than 45% of the variation for women. This indicates that education policy has an important role to …