stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children … access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …

income and likewise over achieved years of education. Gathering information for Bolivia and applying the theoretical scheme … characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity) and family background (household characteristics and parental education). We handle and … education level determination in Bolivia. However, we also evidence that within ten years the conditioning of income to those …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are … percent of differences in these outcomes by family background (measured by mother's education), but this effect disappears … when own education is added to the model. Both cognitive and non-cognitive skills are strongly predictive of education …

capital are associated with earnings mobility. The results indicate that, while individuals with higher cognitive skills … experience greater earnings stability and upward mobility in both countries, there is only an incremental effect of skills on … for earnings mobility; in both countries, advanced skills at work are associated with greater short-term mobility, even …

to an exceptionally rich set of family characteristics - including income, wealth, education, occupation, crime, and …This paper provides new insights on the importance of family background by linking 1.7 million Dutch children's incomes … health. Using a machine learning approach, I show that conventional analyses using parental income only considerably …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in …, empirical analyses concentrated directly on education-related differences in earnings. The human capital revolution of the late …

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …