The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education – we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …

threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …

threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …

good thing. We show, however, that making education more affordable can increase income inequality. The mechanism that …Affordable higher education is, and has been, a key element of social policy in the United States with broad bipartisan … drives our results is a combination of credit constraints and the 'signaling' role of education first explored by Spence …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality … - the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …

support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …

support the claim of substantial economic benefits from preschool education programs. Previous studies of the rate of return …

. -- Education finance ; education administration ; school closures ; tax policy …