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We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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and students’ cognitive and socio-emotional development. The German panel evidence shows that children’s learning time …If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper …
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average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12 percentage points overall and by 16 points for children with low …-educated parents. Interestingly, in most countries the gender gap diminishes because for men the projected decrease in secondary school …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. …
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technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents, and reduced their wage penalty within these occupations. We also …
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achievements between immigrants and natives. However, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit fairly high …
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, on average. This pattern seems to be driven by the high upward mobility of children from low-educated families; at the … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …
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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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