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The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282300
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Accounting for family background when designing optimal income taxes: a microeconometric simulation analysis
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269427
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369107
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Higher education and equality of opportunity in Italy
Peragine, Vito; Serlenga, Laura - 2007
This paper proposes a definition of equality of educational opportunities. Then, it develops a comprehensive model that allows to test for the existence of equality of opportunity in a given distribution and to rank distributions according to equality of opportunity. Finally, it provides an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268806
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The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipalities
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto; De Paola, Maria - 2013
We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled through an instrumental variable approach using the mayor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328950
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From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants
Bevelander, Pieter; Spång, Mikael - 2014
variation in incorporation policies. Also, this chapter traces different dimensions of political participation of immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333331
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Impact of Internal Migration on Political Participation in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysıt - 2014
members to be elected from a constituency, participation by large number of parties, and existence of a dominant party depress …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352317
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Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks
Batista, Catia; Seither, Julia; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2018
identities and thus stimulate intrinsic motivation for political participation, while it may also improve knowledge about better … quality political institutions. Hence, international migration might increase political awareness and participation both by … networks (geographic, kinship, and chatting networks), as well as several different measures of political participation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931742
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Electoral participation as a measure of social inclusion for natives, immigrants and descendants in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2008
participation on the part of immigrants is perceived as being substantially lower than for native born citizens and questions have …. We use two unique sets of data to conduct our research. The 2006 Electoral Participation Survey contains information on … individual electoral participation in national, county and municipal elections. We match this information to registry data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269363
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Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial India
Cassan, Guilhem; Iyer, Lakshmi; Mirza, Rinchan Ali - 2020
We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-based extensions of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270154