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concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. Inurban China, and urban and …
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We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided us by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm...
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attainment than parental education. …
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intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …
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observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we …
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on children's education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the … points. Moreover, households reduced education spending by 58% - particularly on school tuition. These effects are larger for …
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We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This is the first paper, to our knowledge, to provide estimates of sibling...
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variables estimates of the coefficient of intergeneration transmission of education, which show that the effect of parental … education is stronger for mothers than for fathers. They also show that the mother's education matters more for daughters than …
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Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … reduce inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive …
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