Several recent studies, including the Rouse (1999) and Behrman & Rosenzweig (1999) articles in this issue, use the schooling and wage variation between monozygotic twins to estimate the return to schooling. In this overview article, we summarize the results from this literature, and we examine the implications of endogenous determination of which twin goes to school longer and of measuring scho...

This paper targets the principle of full inclusion as articulated by Article 24 Convention on Rights Persons with Disabilities and General Comment #4 through an analysis CRPD Committee’s Concluding Observations for Poland, Germany, Australia. We find inherent tensions dialectical contradictions between ideals embodied in reluctance State Parties to meet targets. To date, obligations entailed ha...

The effects of market and policy reforms on poverty and inequality in Latin America have been of considerable concern. The region continues to have relatively great income inequalities. But income inequality measurements based on cross-sectional annual data are Asnapshots.@ Two different societies with the same Asnapshots@ of income distribution may have different levels of social welfare becau...

The effects of market and policy reforms on poverty and inequality in Latin America have been of considerable concern. The region continues to have relatively great income inequalities. But income inequality measurements based on cross-sectional annual data are Asnapshots.@ Two different societies with the same Asnapshots@ of income distribution may have different levels of social welfare becau...

Using data from the ‘Youth in India: Situation and Needs’ survey, this paper provides perhaps the first estimates of inequality of opportunity in schooling outcomes for males and females separately for India. The inequality of educational opportunity in completion of primary (and secondary) schooling among females is more than twice (and nearly twice) than that among males. Further, among femal...