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(generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this chapter, we study education inequality in … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …
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This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
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Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is largely manifested in persistent levels of economic inequality. Municipality-level economic inequality in Colombia is … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including …
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of these changes has been less important in reducing income inequality. The main driving force of reduced income … inequality has been the fall in returns to education, which at the same time has been one of the important factors to …
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This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation, with an experimental design, which estimates the effect on learning math of a remote tutoring program offered to girls and boys aged 9-14 years in three departments of El Salvador. The program used low-tech interventions such as text...
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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. …
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This paper examines the effects of skill advantages at age six on different types of parental investments, and long-run outcomes up to age 27. We exploit exogenous variation in skills due to school entry rules, combining 20 years of Chilean administrative records with a regression discontinuity...
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Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH benefits alters the academic returns to subsequently attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we exploit exogenous...
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Covering the full population of applicants to the Jamaican Conditional Cash Transfer Program (PATH), we explore whether receiving PATH since childhood altered the academic gains from attending a more preferred public secondary school. To uncover causal associations, we implement a double...
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This paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as...
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