This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …

in a linked panel of full-count US census data. Exposure to CS laws led to comparable increases in education levels for … sorting into higher education and higher income occupations) ii) assortative mating on education, and iii) geographic mobility …

invest in their children’s education. In this paper, I describe a study undertaken to gauge the impact of microcredit … availability on education expenditures for children of clients of a South Indian microfinance institution. I first look at some … determinants of the demand for education and then go on to consider what we know about how microcredit affects this demand. I find …

educational opportunities and on the level of student performance achieved in education systems. The study applies different waves … tracking and the structure of pre-primary education as important determinants for equality. The impact of market …-related structures in education systems on the equality of educational opportunities is evaluated in Chapter 5. Subsequently, Chapter 6 …