• Corpus ID: 15546264

Education and Income Inequality : A Meta-Regression Analysis

@inproceedings{Abdullah2011EducationAI,
  title={Education and Income Inequality : A Meta-Regression Analysis},
  author={Abdul Jabbar Abdullah},
  year={2011}
}

• Abdul Jabbar Abdullah
• Published 2011
• Economics

This paper revisits the literature that investigates the effects of education on inequality. Specifically, the paper provides a comprehensive quantitative review of the extant econometrics literature through a meta-regression analysis of 64 empirical studies that collectively report 868 estimates of the effects of education on inequality. We find that education affects the two tails of the distribution of incomes; it reduces the income share of top earners and increases the share of the bottom earners, but has no effect on the share of the middle class. Inequality in education widens income inequality. Education has a larger negative effect on inequality in Africa. The heterogeneity in reported estimates can be largely explained by differences in the specification of the econometric model. JEL Codes: I24, C01