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and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. Potential changes are identified using a … the most recent cohort while education plays a substantially larger role. The first finding results from a smaller effect … finding results mainly from increased returns to higher education. …
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We develop a model in which individuals choose education to improve their earnings and regulate the cultural traits … they acquire via social transmission. When education makes individuals more receptive to mainstream culture, minority … groups underinvest in education as a form of cultural resistance. Economic and cultural incentives interact in surprising …
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The paper aims at investigating gender differentials in education and wage across four developed countries of southern …
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by showing that controlling for education reduces the variance share of genetics by 5-8 percentage points; by …
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generation and spills over to successive generations as well. As a result Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education … and Human Poverty Index (HPI) to get the intra district scenario. Then the intergenerational mobility in education and …
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. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in education at …
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The question whether a socially mobile society is conducive to subjective well-being (SWB) has rarely been investigated. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in educational attainment at the societal level. Using...
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Education plays an important role in the economic and social development of countries. Myriad studies show that … education is one of the best ways to offer increased socioeconomic opportunities, social mobility and wages. Not only is … universal education important but more significant is the quality of the education. In an attempt to offer higher …
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Development economics in recent years have become more people centric than before. It has rediscovered that human beings are both the means and the end of economic development process, and without Human Development that process becomes a hollow rhetoric. The maze of technical concepts and growth...
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Education is a powerful catalyst for the change of a society and plays a crucial role in the development of a nation …. In recent years, education has been included as a key component of Human Development Index. As a result, social and … Achievement in Elementary Education across the districts of West Bengal to explore regional disparities in educational …
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