Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of … economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …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 …

-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in … productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …

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 …

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation … the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). The dominant assumption in the …, we find that public education spending goes disproportionately to the bottom half of the income distribution. A lump …

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among … series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …

likely to attend tertiary education, less likely to attend vocational education, and more likely to end without qualified … ambitions allow higher skilled migrants to hieventertiary education despite their less favourable background characteristics. On … education, may be diverted from vocational training as a more viable alternative. These patterns are stronger for boys than for …

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. …