Does Educational Achievement Help To Explain Income Inequality? Working Papers No. 208.

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Economic Inequality and Its Socioeconomic Impact (2002, methodology): “Using the dataset of Deininger and Squire (1996) and the ''world income inequality dataset'' (WIID), Checchi (2000) finds that average years of education have a strong negative effect on income inequality.”
Human Capital Inequality and Economic Growth: Some New Evidence (2002, unknown): “In contrast with our approach, Checchi (2000) uses the information of the education for the population aged 25 years and over.”
The personal and the factor distributions of income in a cross-section of countries (2007, background): “, 2000; Checchi, 2004; Checchi and Garcı́a-Peñalosa, 2004), and this would be a second reason why we would expect the level of education to have a negative impact on inequality. However, Thomas et al. (2000) find that, for low levels of education, a higher average value is associated with greater di”