Showing 1 - 10 of 617
male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280747
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208717
men who grew up in regions or periods with high levels of income inequality experienced less intergenerational mobility as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388861
findings indicate that family wealth inequality - even in a comparatively egalitarian context like Sweden - has profound …-term consequences of wealth inequality may be conservative for nations other than Sweden, like the U.S., where family wealth - in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039324
Education and wealth are positively correlated for individuals approaching retirement, but the direction of the causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208789
disparities in income, employment, homeownership, education, access to credit, and retirement savings - all factors that …, each factor, along with a history of racism and discrimination has contributed to the extreme wealth inequality in America …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013479458
recruitment. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of one such proposal: the expansion of mass education. More precisely, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464473
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294897
India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw buffer stocking of food grains as a famine-combating tool. Today, apart from serving as an effective hedge in times of famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807689
What are the long-term effects of universal preschool programs on child outcomes? We review 26 studies using natural experiments to estimate the effects of universal preschool programs for children aged 0-6 years on child outcomes measured from third grade to adulthood. Studies comparing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039300