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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; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...

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Labor shortage and innovation

Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2020

Skilled labor is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply of skilled labor may hence impede … innovation activities, resulting in lower productivity gains. While governments are concerned about these likely negative impacts …, there is only limited empirical evidence whether and to what extent labor shortage affects innovation activities. The paper …

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Dynastic inequality compared : multigenerational mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany

Neidhöfer, Guido; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016

Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socio-economic status. In this country comparison setting we find evidence against Gregory Clark's "universal law of social...

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Government expenditure in the DINA framework : allocation methods and consequences for post-tax income inequality

Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2022

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation of the entirety of government expenditure to individuals. About half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g.,...

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An iterative deferred acceptance mechanism for decentralized, fast and fair childcare assignment

Reischmann, Tobias; Klein, Thilo; Giegerich, Sven - 2021

We design and implement an iterative, program-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism with ties (IDAT) and apply it to childcare assignment in two German cities. The mechanism can accommodate complementarities in providers' preferences, is fast to terminate even in larger cities, is difficult to...

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Self-assessment : the role of the social environment

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; … - 2020

This study presents descriptive and causal evidence on the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment. We introduce a novel incentivized measurement tool to measure the accuracy of self-assessment among children and use this tool to show that children from high...

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The long-term distributional and welfare effects of Covid-19 school closures

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020

Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. In the model, public investment through schooling is combined with parental...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019

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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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, 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...

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Fairness in matching markets : experimental evidence

König, Tobias; Kübler, Dorothea; Mechtenberg, Lydia; … - 2023

We investigate fairness preferences in matching mechanisms using a spectator design. Participants choose between the Boston mechanism or the serial dictatorship mechanism (SD) played by others. In our setup, the Boston mechanism generates justified envy, while the strategy-proof SD ensures...

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