bolster political incentives through contributions. Economies with a stronger middle class due to lower inequality or lower …

countries. The same result is also obtained for the e¤ects of ICT and mass media on economic inequality,. However, ICT reveals … itself inequal- ity increasing for the developing country sample but inequality decreasing for the entire sample. Finally …

significance for public policy for education, cities and social mobility. …

type of involvement and the gender of the parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlier poverty …, especially at age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest in school at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education …. The frequency of outings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education than outings with father …

mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other … second part of the paper looks for explanations for the differences in earnings and education persistence and finds that …