We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …

economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …

We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of … intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting … that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust effect on the development of Latin American regions. …

achievements between immigrants and natives. However, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit fairly high … intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …

series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …, on average. This pattern seems to be driven by the high upward mobility of children from low-educated families; at the …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12 percentage points overall and by 16 points for children with low … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage …

shock, children of more exposed fathers have lower education and earnings, lower chances of formal jobs, and are more likely … to rely on social assistance. These effects are substantially stronger for children from disadvantaged background …

The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of … policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed … information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these …