To date, the concentration of fertility has been studied almost exclusively through the lens of indicators derived from the Lorenz curve of completed parity. Arguably, this situation has resulted from a misapplication of criteria from the study of income inequality, without fully considering the...

Higher education is never free - the question is: who should pay for it? Current policy debates in Europe are increasingly focusing on raising the share of private funding. To date, policy discussions have centred on a relatively small number of alternatives, namely full public funding, tuition...

Conventional parametric count distributions, namely the Poisson and Negative-Binomial models, do not offer satisfactory descriptions of empirical distributions of completed cohort parity. One reason is that they cannot model variance-to-mean ratios below unity, that is, underdispersion, which is...

The expansion of enrolment and attainment is a key theme in higher education research. In particular, research has examined cross-national determinants of higher education expansion while understanding expansion through the relationship between higher education and the labour market. Early work...