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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 …
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There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly …
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The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative … university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university … returns and costs explains educational inequality in Germany. …
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Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement …
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Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...
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data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of … fixed effects account for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, education - but not income or urbanization - is …
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uses the framework of an education production function to provide descriptive analysis of the extent to which different …
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on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs … growth and increase inequality. …
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socioeconomic causes as well as its consequences for human capital, secularization, political change, technology diffusion, and …
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Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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