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The intergenerational elasticity of earnings : exploring the mechanisms

Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2021

Using data covering a single cohort’s ﬁrst 55 years of life, we show that most of the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) is explained by differences in: years of schooling, cognitive skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during...

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Unbundling returns to degrees and skills : evidence from postsecondary education in Colombia

Busso, Matias; Muñoz, Juan Sebastián; Montaño, Sebastián - 2020

This paper shows that returns to education are not enough to capture all the returns to human capital. Using longitudinal data of all college graduates in Colombia, we estimate labor market returns to postsecondary degrees and to various skillsincluding literacy, numeracy, foreign language,...

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Child labor and resistance to change

Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Ottaviano, … - 2003

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

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Education in a marriage market model without commitment

Hyee, Raphaela - 2011

This paper develops a model that combines intra-household bargaining with competition on the marriage market to analyse women's and men's incentives to invest in education. Once married, spouses bargain over their share of total household income. They have the option of unilateral divorce and...

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Teacher quality and learning outcomes in kindergarten

Araujo, María Caridad; Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, … - 2016

We assigned two cohorts of kindergarten students, totaling more than 24,000 children, to teachers within schools with a rule that is as-good-as-random. We collected data on children at the beginning of the school year, and applied 12 tests of math, language and executive function (EF) at the end...

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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?

Hyee, Raphaela - 2011

This paper demonstrates that a woman's propensity to separate from her husband or live-in partner depends positively on male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings power, the more likely a woman is to end her...

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A classical model of education, growth and distribution

Dutt, Amitava Krishna; Veneziani, Roberto - 2017

We develop a classical macroeconomic model to examine the growth and distributional consequences of education. Contrary to the received wisdom, we show that human capital accumulation is not necessarily growth-inducing and inequality-reducing. Expansive education policies may foster growth and...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...

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The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children's long-run outcomes

Hicks, Jeffrey; Simard-Duplain, Gaëlle; Green, David A.; … - 2023

Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s. We study how this shift affected families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax returns, medical spending, educational attainment, and crime data. We find substantial and heterogeneous employment responses...

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The role of education and income inequality on environmental quality : a panel data analysis of the EKC hypothesis on OECD

Maranzano, Paolo; Bento, João Paulo Cerdeira; Manera, … - 2021

We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to...

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