Fields, Gary S.2020-11-172020-11-171980-07-012300721https://hdl.handle.net/1813/75505[Excerpt] This paper is a survey of the available literature on education and income distribution in developing countries. Education may affect the distribution of income in a variety of ways: by raising the level of income; by changing, for better or worse, the dispersion of income; by opening up new opportunities for the children of the poor and thereby serving as a vehicle for social mobility and/or, by limiting participation to the children of the well-to-do, transmitting intergenerational inequality; by offering greater access to favored segments of the population (boys, city-dwellers, certain racial groups); by rewarding differently the education received by these groups; through public financing, by taxing some more heavily to subsidize the education of others; and by interacting with fertility, mortality, health, and other aspects of development.en-USRequired Publisher Statement: © The World Bank. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.educationincome distributiondevelopmentpovertyunassigned