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Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …

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Reference Dependent Aspirations and Peer Effects in Education

Fongoni, Marco; Norris, Jonathan; Romiti, Agnese; Shi, Zhan - 2022

We study the long-run effects of income inequality within adolescent peer compositions in schools. We propose a theoretical framework based on reference dependence where inequality in peer groups can generate aspiration gaps. Guided by predictions from this framework we find that an increase in...

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Intergenerational trends in educational and income mobility in the United States of America since the 1960s

Ernst, Ekkehard; Langot, François; Merola, Rossana; … - 2024

Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and intergenerational mobility. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to analyse how educational and income mobility has evolved in the United States of America. We show...

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Public wash programs, long-run child development, and intergenerational mobility: New evidence from rural People's Republic of China

Wang, Dongqin; Zou, Eddy Weijian - 2023

Using individual-level longitudinal data from 1989 to 2015, we examine the long-run effects of nationwide water plant construction and household-level toilet subsidy programs in rural People's Republic of China (PRC) on children's education, health, and nutrition. We exploit the differential...

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Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Index and Its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood

Bolyard, Atticus; Savelyev, Peter A. - 2024

Based on the sample of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we investigate the formation of health capital and the role played by genetic endowments, parental SES, and education. To measure genetic endowments we take advantage of the new availability of...

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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2013

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...

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Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children - how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

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Family Shocks and Academic Achievement

Hull, Marie C. - 2015

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...

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Educação e o rendimento dos ricos no Brasil

Medeiros, Marcelo; Galvão, Juliana Castro - 2015

We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our main conclusion is that while education may be...

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Selection and Educational Attainment: Why Some Children Are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country

Méndez-Errico, Luciana; Ramos, Xavier - 2019

We model schooling as a sequential process and examine why some children are left behind. We focus on the factors that explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as parental background or ethnicity matter across all...

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