Financial aid to college students has been widely implemented by governments indeveloped and emerging economies in an attempt to reduce the entry barriers to highereducation (HE). Understanding the extent to which these policies enable access to HE is crucialin order to unravel the effectiveness...

Research in the social sciences has focused extensively on the relationship between family background, educational attainment and social destination, on the one hand, and on the processes of skills creation and skills use, on the other. This paper brings these two branches of the literature...