capital ; labor supply ; retirement ; training ; dynamic complementarity ; inequality ; returns to education ; (non …

Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in … 1999 affects the education opportunities of various population groups and how this policy affects the labor market …. Treating the expansion as an experiment and using a LATE framework, we find that higher education expansion increased the …

There is widespread interest in universal early education, both to promote child development and to support maternal … employment. Positive long-term findings from small-scale early education interventions for low-income children in the US have …-scale, more widely accessible programs. Instead, the best insight into the potential impacts of universal early education comes …

This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC … effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education distortions. Analytically, the effect of SBTC on these three … distributional losses, and it increases education distortions. Also, SBTC lowers optimal education subsidies, since SBTC generates …

free compulsory education to children in Onitsha. Also, child labour education should be introduced in school curriculum to …

Should a redistributive government optimally subsidize education to provoke a reduction in the skill premium through … income taxes and education subsidies in two-type models with endogenous human capital formation, endogenous labor supply, and … endogenous wage rates. Under optimal linear policies, education should not be subsidized so as to reduce the skill premium …

We develop a model of education where individuals face educational risk. Successfully entering the skilled labor sector … depends on individual effort in education and public resources, but educational risk still causes (income) inequality. We show …, because combining skill-specific tuition fees and public education spending provide both insurance and redistribution at lower …

spend comparatively few years in formal education, and the quality of the education they receive is lower than in other OECD … countries. This paper discusses the performance of education services up to the upper secondary level. It assesses both the … efficiency (outcome for money invested) and the equity of the system and shows that the education system has to be improved …

We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …