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The paper tests whether native-born American families respond to inflows of immigrants by sending their children to private school.  The analysis uses 1980 and 1990 Census data from 132 metropolitan areas.  For primary school students, no significant relation between immigration and...
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Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren.  We also examine whether "white flight" is from all...
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Using 1990 Census microdata, we explore ethnic, racial and immigrant differences in private school attendance.  We find high rates of private school attendance among white natives, white immigrants, and Asian natives.  In contrast, we find low private school rates among black and Hispanic...
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high levels of income inequality continuously debated. When solutions are discussed, one of the more frequently recited … could in fact have exacerbated inequality, despite society having undertaken national educational expansion. The data … high income households, the curative effects of educational expansion on income inequality appear to be paradoxical …
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at all levels. Gender inequality has become a major issue in Eritrea in the recent years. This paper discusses … educational development in the country. It identifies and analyses various factors that cause gender inequality in education …
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While income inequality in third world countries has aggressively been commented and studied extensively, little … analysis is relatively available on measuring inequality in other dimensions of human development. The main findings suggest … that inequality in education as measured by education Gini is negatively associated with average years schooling, implying …
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Abstract This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the … context of education inequality. The econometric results from a cross-section analysis of 23 provinces in the period of 1996 …
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In this paper, we examine the consequences of imperfect information on the pattern of transfers from parents to children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove that equal transfers among children are expected under...
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redistribution policy makes it possible to increase output per capita and to reduce inequality because both increase the educated …
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their interplay with income inequality. We identify a positive interaction of perceived social mobility that mitigates its … overall impact of income inequality that is SWB lowering, while for low social mobility the effect of inequality is positive …. These interactions hold stronger for pre-transfer than post-transfer income inequality. Actual social mobility appears to be …
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