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• Level of education of households head is associated with increased
income of household or not in Egypt?
• How does income of household influence on completed education
of individual?
• The relation between income inequality and education disparities
and effect on achieving SDGs in Egypt?

2. Literature Review
Rahman.T, Taposh.D (2015) paper’s discussed the relation between Income
Inequality and education inequality using household level for Bangladesh,
when Income Inequality has always been at most important issue in economic
research and public policy debate. The study finds that education inequality
has positive and statistically significant impact on income inequality in
Bangladesh. Although the result shows that the effect of education inequality
on income disparity is not the biggest one, however it is more realistic
approach for Bangladesh to redesign the education system, compared to
other available routes, such as, wealth redistribution-which is impractical and
also, might create social unrest if tried. These statistical findings can be treated
as a starting point in discussing related policies.
Abdul Jabbar Abdullah (2011) this paper provides a comprehensive review
of the extant econometrics literature through a meta-regression analysis
(MRA) of 64 empirical studies that collectively report 868 estimates of the
effects of education on aggregate inequality. The aim MRA is:
Assess the effect of education on inequality. Does education increase,
decrease, or have no effect at all on inequality at the national level? Under
what conditions does education shape national inequality?
The paper concluded that education appears to have its greatest effect on
the two tails of the income distribution, reducing the income share of the rich
and increasing the income share of the poor. Hence, we can conclude that
education reduces the gap between the rich and the poor. Education appears
to have no effect on the share of the middle class. It also concluded that the
more unequal is the distribution of education the greater will be income
inequality. Hence, it appears that it is important to ensure a fairly equitable
access to education. Inequality in education widens income inequality.
Education has a larger negative effect on inequality in Africa. The paper
indicated that education reduces the gap between the rich and the poor.in
addition to the education is an effective tool for reducing income inequality,
so the distribution of education is important. Some of the results also indicate
that the level of secondary education appears to be more important in
reducing inequality than primary schooling does. There are some important
regional differences in the effects of education.

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