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significance for public policy for education, cities and social mobility. …
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Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational...
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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 …
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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 …
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In this paper, I illustrate the additional information that can be prodivided in estimating the lower bound (Sutton 1991, 1998) by using quantile regression. Quantile regression allows us to invesigate the influence of outliers. Previous lower bound have been performed using the simplex method....
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Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to distinguish explicitly union...
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education across the board, have carried much of the inequality increasing influence of overall composition effects. Although to … effects). We find that mean wages have not increased substantially, but wage inequality has, mostly at the upper tail of the … a lesser extent, changes in the returns to skill have contributed to inequality by forming a U-shaped pattern along the …
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effects). We find that mean wages have not increased substantially, but wage inequality has, mostly at the upper tail of the … education across the board, have carried much of the inequalityincreasing influence of overall composition effects. Although to … a lesser extent, changes in the returns to skill have contributed to inequality by forming a U-shaped pattern along the …
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Recent theoretical and empirical work has demonstrated a clear negative link between macroeconomic and political uncertainty and levels of private investment across countries. This result raises the question what institutions might help reduce this uncertainty, in particular by allowing host...
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The high school exit exam (HSEE) is rapidly becoming a standardized assessment procedure for educational accountability in the United States. I use a unique state-specific dataset to identify the effect of failing the HSEE on the likelihood that a student drops out early based on a Regression...
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