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Chapter 8 Theories of persistent inequality and intergenerational mobility
Piketty, Thomas - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 429-476). 2000
This chapter reviews the existing theories of persistent inequality across generations. The chapter discusses total economic inequality both in wealth and in earnings and focuses on the intergenerational mobility dimension of total inequality. The chapter presents a nonexhaustive, nontechnical...
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Top incomes in the long run of history
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Piketty, Thomas; Saez, Emmanuel - 2009
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Inequality: the original economic sin of capitalism? : an evaluation of Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the twenty-first century"
Facchini, François; Couvreur, Stéphane - In: European journal of political economy 39 (2015), pp. 281-287
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Top incomes : a global perspective
Atkinson, Anthony Barnes (contributor);  … - 2010
A rapidly growing area of economic research investigates the top of the income distribution using data from income tax …
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Piketty, Thomas - 2014
The main driver of inequality—returns on capital that exceed the rate of economic growth—is again threatening to generate extreme discontent and undermine democratic values. Thomas Piketty’s findings in this ambitious, original, rigorous work will transform debate and set the agenda for...
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Estimating Peer Effects among College Students : Evidence from a Field Experiment of One-to-One Pairings in STEM
Fairlie, Robert W.; Oliver, Daniel; Millhauser, Glenn; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
An extensive literature in the social sciences analyzes peer effects among students, but estimation is complicated by … observations within peer groups noted by Angrist (2014). The field experiment randomly assigns students to one-to-one partnerships … effects but we find some evidence that low-ability peers negatively affect low-ability and medium-ability students. The …
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Does class size matter for school tracking outcomes after elementary school? : quasi-experimental evidence using administrative panel data from Germany
Argaw, Bethlehem Asres; Puhani, Patrick A. - In: Economics of education review 65 (2018), pp. 48-57
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The long-term effects of early track choice
Dustmann, Christian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Schönberg, Uta - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 127 (2017) 603, pp. 1348-1380
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