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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385407
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Patterns, trends and policy implications of private spending on skills development in Mexico and the United States
Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela - 2017
This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low …-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011661892
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Explaining intergenerational mobility : the role of fertility and family transfers
Daruich, Diego; Kozlowski, Julian - 2018
Poor families have more children and transfer less resources to them. This suggests that family decisions about fertility and transfers dampen intergenerational mobility. To evaluate the quantitative importance of this mechanism, we extend the standard heterogeneous agent life cycle model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911515
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Does Immigration Induce "Native Flight" from Public Schools into Private Schools?
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928894
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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929810
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Explaining Ethnic, Racial, and Immigrant Differences in Private School Attendance
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929812
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Origins of Latin American inequality
Eslava, Francisco; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2023
documenting the broad patterns of national and sub-national differences in income and inequality, building on the seminal … contributions of Engerman and Sokoloff (2000; 2002, 2005) and aiming to capture different dimensions of inequality. We then proceed …, extending their economic results to include different measures of inequality as outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014536601
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Wealth inequality and stratification by social classes in 21st-century Europe
Gil-Hernández, Carlos J.; Salas-Rojo, Pedro; … - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495925
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Inherited inequality : a general framework and an application to South Africa
Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Salas-Rojo, Pedro - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391304
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Skills, education and wealth inequality
Castagno, Elisa; Corvino, Raffaele; Ruggiero, Francesco - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429696