In this paper we pose the question: to what extent is education responsible for the differential labour market outcomes … of women and men in urban India. In particular, we investigate the extent to which education contributes to women …'s observed lower labour force participation and earnings than men, and whether any contribution of education to the gender wage …

In 2003 Kenya abolished user fees in all government primary schools. We find that this Free Primary Education (FPE … rather the selection of weaker pupils into free education.  In contrast, affluent children who exited to the private sector …

fee cap to increase beyond the rate of inflation.  The funding postion of the higher education sector can be improved by …-run solution to the repeated underfunding of undergraduate education at a number of English universities and reduce the fiscal …

on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality.  The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate … growth but (b) that the addition to growth depends inversely on the level of wealth inequality prior to opening.  These … findings confirm the general importance for rapid growth in developing countries of reducing inequality of opportunity. …

countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality.  The focus is on the period since the early-mid-1990s when growth in …-growth story.  While in the majority of countries, growth was the major factor behind falling or increasing poverty, inequality …, high initial levels of inequality limit the effectiveness of growth in reducing poverty while growing inequality reduces …

Surprisingly little is known about the impact of resource booms on income inequality in resource rich countries (Ross … growth, to explain the time path of inequality following a resource boom.  Under plausible conditions, we find that income … inequality will fall in the short run immediately after a boom, and will then increase steadily over time as the economy grows …

and inequality are observed for Spain and Portugal. In Greece only inequality increased. For most countries for which …Most recent studies on poverty and inequality in developed countries focus on income. In contrast, this paper presents … trends in consumption-based poverty and inequality in nine member countries of the European Union. During the 1980s, both …