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-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
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strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
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of these factors over time. Policies are necessary to improve equality of opportunity in education in Turkey. …
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expanding upper secondary education. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place …
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In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We collect detailed time-use information on students before...
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The rational expectations assumption, e.g. in life-cycle models and portfolio-choice models, prescribes agents to have model-consistent beliefs and to avoid systematic prediction errors. In reality, justi cation and identification of expectations are nontrivial. One way to solve this problem is...
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Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women, when asked to predict their own potential wage outcomes, show severely biased expectations with strong over-optimism about the returns to part-time experience. We estimate a...
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Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. We study how the tax-and-transfer system o sets inequalities in lifetime earnings, which would otherwise translate into differences in living standards. Based on a life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes...
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Education systems can be viewed as complex systems, by considering that learning, teaching, cognition and education are … education systems, new approaches seem relevant, and even necessary, if we consider that traditional methods are often not … complex system approach in education, and to bring to discussion the potential benefits of this perspective to education in …
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The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative … university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university …
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