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Opportunity and Inequality across Generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020
We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the … nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179898
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Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks in Real-Time: A Novel Method Applied to the Covid-19 Crisis in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2020
The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425654
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Opportunity and Inequality Across Generations
Koeniger, Winfried - 2020
We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the … nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841147
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The Dynamic Implications of Liberalizing Global Migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
inequality are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases … by 20 percent in the short-run, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333443
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052832
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266618
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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Wößmann, Ludger - 2018
returns and costs explains educational inequality in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872057
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931942
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Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid
Colas, Mark; Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2018
We study the optimal design of student financial aid as a function of parental income. We derive optimal financial aid formulas in a general model. For a simple model version, we derive mild conditions on primitives under which poorer students receive more aid even without distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932021
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Long-Run Trends in the U.S. SES-Achievement Gap
Hanushek, Eric A.; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207876