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The distributional impact of social spending in Peru
Gaentzsch, Anja - 2018
Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru. It applies an extended income approach that accounts for the value of …
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Disrupted schooling: impacts on achievement from the Chilean school occupations
Montebruno, Piero - 2020
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...
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Working life and human capital investment
Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Kurz, Elisabeth; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021
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Maternal depression and child human capital: a genetic instrumental-variable approach
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Ghislandi, Simone; … - 2021
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
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Working life and human capital investment : causal evidence from pension reform
Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Kurz, Elisabeth; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019
In this paper we present a life-cycle model with human capital investment during working life through training and provide a novel empirical test of human capital theory. Using a sizable pension reform which shifts the retirement age between two adjacent cohorts by three years, we document...
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Education and economic growth
Valero, Anna - 2021
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Intergenerational mobility of education in Europe : geographical patterns, cohort-linked measures, and the innovation nexus
McNamara, Sarah; Neidhöfer, Guido; Lehnert, Patrick - 2024 - This version: January 16, 2024
We estimate intergenerational mobility of education for people born 1940-1999 at the subnational level for 40 European countries. The result is a panel of mobility indices for 105 mesoregions (NUTS1), and 215 microregions (NUTS2). We use these indices to make three contributions. First, we...
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The impact of parental health shocks on child schooling and labor : evidence from Thailand
Sasiwooth Wongmonta - 2023
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