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Spatial segregation and socio-economic mobility in European cities

Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit; Vuijst, Elise de; … - 2016

Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...

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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe

Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - 2009

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...

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Education policies and migration across European countries

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2016

This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...

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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018

Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...

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Does money strengthen our social ties? : longitudinal evidence of lottery winners

Costa-Font, Joan; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2021

We study the effect of lottery wins on social ties and support network in the United Kingdom. On average, we find that winning more in the lottery increases the probability of meeting friends on most days, which is consistent with the complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite...

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Ethnic differences in duration and timing of exposure to neighbourhood disadvantage during childhood

Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van - 2017

This paper examines ethnic differences in childhood neighborhood disadvantage among children living in the Netherlands …. In contrast to more conventional approaches for assessing children's exposure to neighborhood poverty and affluence (e … children were more likely than native Dutch children to live in a poor neighborhood at any specific stage within childhood, but …

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The social side of early human capital formation: using a field experiment to estimate the causal impact of neighborhoods

List, John A.; Momeni, Fatemeh; Zenou, Yves - 2020

The behavioral revolution within economics has been largely driven by psychological insights, with the sister sciences playing a lesser role. This study leverages insights from sociology to explore the role of neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age. We do so by estimating the...

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