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Educational opportunity for all : overcoming inequality throughout the life course

OECD - 2017

labour, regardless of their circumstances at birth. However, as this report shows, far too many children, students and adults … students at opposite ends of the socio-economic scale, and these differences tend to increase in the transition into adulthood …-based support and programmes for children from families that have not attained a high level of education and skills. In the schools …

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Improving Health and Social Cohesion through Education

2010

Today’s global policy climate underlines the importance of better addressing non-economic dimensions of well-being and social progress such as health, social engagement, political interest and crime. Education plays an important role in shaping indicators of progress. However, we understand...

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Are the New Millennium Learners Making the Grade? : Technology Use and Educational Performance in PISA 2006

2010

Using data from PISA 2006, this book analyzes to what extent investments in technology enhance educational outcomes. One of the most striking findings of this study is that the digital divide in education goes beyond the issue of access to technology. A new second form of digital divide has been...

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Is Education Losing the Race with Technology? : AI's Progress in Maths and Reading

OECD - 2023

skills of students and workers and teach them to work together with AI. …

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Taxes, Status Goods, and Piracy

Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...

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The Efficient Side of Progressive Income Taxation

Corneo, Giacomo - CESifo - 2000

This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …

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The Trade-off between Intra- and Intergenerational Equity in Climate Policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - CESifo - 2013

This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which each...

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Combining Rights and Welfarism: A New Approach to Intertemporal Evaluation of Social Alternatives

Long, Ngo Van; Martinet, Vincent - CESifo - 2012

We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...

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Climate Policy under Sustainable Discounted Utilitarianism

Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - CESifo - 2011

Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...

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A Complete and Strongly Anonymous Leximin Relation on Infinite Streams

Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - CESifo - 2011

Various extensions of the leximin order to the infinite dimensional setting have been suggested. They relax completeness and strong anonymity. Instead, by removing sensitivity to generations at infinite rank this paper defines a complete and strongly anonymous leximin relation on infinite...

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