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Migration and forsaken schooling in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-27

Large international earnings differentials negatively impact human capital investments in migrant-origin countries. We find that three Central Asian migrant-sending countries-the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan-are facing a for-saken schooling...

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Acess to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival

Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - 2013

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...

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A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application

Basu, Kaushik; Lee, Travis - 2008

It can be argued that just as there are different kinds of literacy, there are different kinds of illiteracy. A proximate illiterate, i.e. an illiterate who has easy access to a literate person, is clearly better off than someone without such access. The existing literature that takes account of...

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The College Wealth Divide: Education and Inequality in America, 1956-2016

Bartscher, Alina K.; Kuhn, Moritz; Schularick, Moritz - 2019

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …

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How redistributive policies reduce market inequality: Education premiums in 22 OECD countries

Weisstanner, David; Armingeon, Klaus - 2018

premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Wößmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

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Gender gaps in education: The long view

Evans, David K.; Akmal, Maryam; Jakiela, Pamela - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27

Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First, women are more educated today than 50 years ago in...

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Trade, Education, and Income Inequality

Brueckner, Markus; Long, Ngo Van; Vespignani, Joaquin - 2020

population are educated, an increase in non-gravity trade is associated with a significant increase in income inequality. As … education of the population increases the correlation between non-gravity trade and income inequality becomes smaller. Non …-gravity trade has no significant effect on income inequality in countries that are world leaders in education. …

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The Education-Innovation Gap

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...

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Mapping Educational Disparities in Life-Cycle Consumption

Jensen, Svend E. Hougaard; Olafsson, Sigurdur P.; … - 2022

This paper uses data taken from the tax returns of all Icelandic taxpayers in 2005-2019, a period that saw large changes in disposable income around the country's financial crisis in 2008, to plot the life-cycle path of consumption and income for different education groups and to estimate the...

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