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Educational Inequality
Azuma, Yoshiaki - 2001
This paper develops a theoretical model that relates changes in educational inequality to the combined effects of innovations that have increased the relative demand for more educated labor and innovations that have increased ability premiums. Under the assumption that in the long run individual...
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Changing Social Contracts : Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil
Alston, Lee J. - 2012
Social contracts about inequality and redistribution are country-specific. We rely on a model of inequality and redistribution where multiple steady states can emerge in given country. We link the model to the recent literature on beliefs and argue that beliefs are a major determinant of which...
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The problems of disadvantaged youth : an economic perspective
Gruber, Jonathan (ed.) - 2009
-- Education : the behavioral consequences of pre-kindergarten participation for disadvantaged youth / David Figlio and Jeffrey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800493
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It All Starts with Beliefs : Addressing the Roots of Educational Inequities by Shifting Parental Beliefs
List, John A.; Pernaudet, Julie; Suskind, Dana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Socioeconomic inequalities in child development crystallize at early stages, with associated disparities in parental investment in children. A key to understanding the data patterns is to document the sources underlying the observed inequalities. We first show that there are dramatic differences...
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Inequality in Life and Death
Eichenbaum, Martin S.; Rebelo, Sérgio; Trabandt, Mathias - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We argue that the Covid epidemic disproportionately affected the economic well-being and health of poor people. To disentangle the forces that generated this outcome, we construct a model that is consistent with the heterogeneous impact of the Covid recession on low- and high-income people....
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Educational Inequality*
Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … acquisition and investment in human capital. The models account for different channels underlying unequal education and highlight … summarize early evidence on the impact of the pandemic on children's education and on possible long-run repercussions for …
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Global Wealth Inequality
Zucman, Gabriel - 2019
This article reviews the recent literature on the dynamics of global wealth inequality. I first reconcile available estimates of wealth inequality in the United States. Both surveys and tax data show that wealth inequality has increased dramatically since the 1980s, with a top 1% wealth share...
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Markups and Inequality
Boar, Corina - 2019
We study the aggregate and distributional impact of product market interventions and profit taxes using a model of firm dynamics, credit constraints and incomplete markets. A key ingredient of our model is that markups are endogenous so that the markup a producer charges depends on the amount of...
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Inequality of Fear and Self-Quarantine : Is There a Trade-off between GDP and Public Health?
Aum, Sangmin - 2020
We construct a quantitative model of an economy hit by an epidemic. People differ by age and skill, and choose occupations and whether to commute to work or work from home, to maximize their income and minimize their fear of infection. Occupations differ by wage, infection risk, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481684
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Social Distancing, Internet Access and Inequality
Chiou, Lesley - 2020
This paper measures the role of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on an individual's ability to self-isolate during a global pandemic. We use data that tracks 20 million mobile devices and their movements across physical locations, and whether the mobile devices leave their homes that day. We...
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