collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …

It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self … relative income is low. In this paper we study this hypothesis by estimating the effect of relative income on job mobility … characteristics. Our findings suggest that workers compare their own income to that of their neighbors, and low relative income is …

between the income of parents and that of their children. To understand the implications of polarization on economic mobility … lower upward mobility for children from low-income parents, higher intergenerational elasticity for children whose parents … from low-income parents if replacement of routine labor is high, and educational polarization for younger generations. I …