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Skills, education and fertility and the confounding impact of family background

Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2019

Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled and educated. Using rich Swedish register data, we show that these negative associations found in most previous studies largely disappear if we remove the impact of family...

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Grand advantage: Family wealth and grandchildren's educational achievement in Sweden

Hällsten, Martin; Pfeffer, Fabian T. - 2017

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' wealth and their grandchildren's educational achievement. Doing so allows us to reliably establish the...

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Improving Education Quality in South Africa

Murtin, Fabrice - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

South Africa has achieved remarkable progress in educational attainment relative to other emerging countries, but the quality of basic education for a large fraction of the Black African population is still very low. This study identifies several hurdles to the upgrading of basic education...

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Gross Earning Inequalities in OECD Countries and Major Non-member Economies: Determinants and Future Scenarios

Braconier, Henrik; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Income and earning inequality has been on the rise in most of the OECD and in many emerging economies since the 1980s. This paper estimates a model of earnings inequality across OECD countries that incorporates determinants of relative demand and supply of more and less-skilled labour. Drawing...

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Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden

Forsberg, Erika; Khan, Akib; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2024

Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across countries, less is known about heterogeneities across...

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Enhancing Portugal's Human Capital

Guichard, Stéphanie; Larre, Bénédicte - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

The lack of human capital in Portugal has become a key obstacle to higher growth. This paper discusses the performance … of education and training services in Portugal and shows that improvements are needed to narrow the significant human … of the services that compound the low starting point of Portugal regarding education. Modernizing the Portuguese economy …

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Boosting Productivity in Russia: Skills, Education and Innovation

Demmou, Lilas; Wörgötter, Andreas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015

persist.<P> Private spending on innovation is very low and Russia underperforms in terms of scientific outputs and patents …. Support for low-tech innovation and technology adoption, especially among SMEs is narrow because of a bias towards large and … Russie : Les compétences, l'éducation et l'innovation<BR>Le marché du travail en Russie est très flexible. Les entreprises s …

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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap

Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …

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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...

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Can increased education help reduce the political opportunity gap?

Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; Persson, Mikael - 2017

It is well documented that voter turnout is lower among persons who grow up in families of low socio-economic status compared to persons from high-status families. This paper examines whether reforms in education can help to reduce the socio-economic gap in voting. We distinguish between reforms...

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