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Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality … children are signi ficantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from low socio-economic status (SES) families …-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
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The German educational system is characterized by pronounced educational disparities based on the parental socioeconomic status. Despite the rather strong stratification of the secondary school sys-tem and social selection into obtaining the university entrance qualification, the transition to...
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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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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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