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Opportunity and Inequality across Generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022
We analyze how intergenerational mobility and inequality would change relative to the status quo if dynasties had access to optimal insurance against low ability of future generations. Based on a dynamic, dynastic Mirrleesian model, we find that insurance against intergenerational ability risk...
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The impact of interest in school on educational success in Portugal
Goulart, Pedro; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2011
Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274665
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The Impact of Interest in School on Educational Success in Portugal
Goulart, Pedro; Bedi, Arjun S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining … educational economics analyses. We rely on two data sets collected in Portugal in 1998 and 2001 and examine the interest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836677
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283971
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262329
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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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The Spillover of Anti-Immigration Politics to the Schoolyard
Bracco, Emanuele; De Paola, Maria; Green, Colin P.; … - 2020
There has been a resurgence in right wing and populist politics in recent years. A common element is a focus on immigration, an increase in anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the vilification of minorities. This in turn has the potential to lead to increases in societal hostility towards immigrants....
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Inequality in Internet Access in India: Implications for Learning during COVID
Datta, Sandip; Kingdon, Geeta G. - 2022
During COVID school closures, learning become mostly restricted to young people who had internet access at home. This paper examines internet access in India using National Sample Survey 2017-18. It probes the extent of inequality in young people's internet access across gender, caste, religion,...
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Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
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Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - 2014
Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are investigated. We use household data collected in Ningxia autonomous region in 2007. It is found that compared with Han persons of the same age and gender, Hui persons have shorter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468121