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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023

This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...

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Explaining intergenerational mobility : the role of fertility and family transfers

Daruich, Diego; Kozlowski, Julian - 2018

fertility and transfers dampen intergenerational mobility. To evaluate the quantitative importance of this mechanism, we extend … fertility, family transfers, and education. The model, estimated to the US in the 2000s, implies that a counterfactual flat … income-fertility profile would-through the equalization of initial conditions-increase intergenerational mobility by 6%. The …

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Inequality in the early years in LAC : a comparative study of size, persistence, and policies

Attanasio, Orazio P.; López Bóo, Florencia; … - 2023

Gaps in child development by socioeconomic status (SES) start early in life, are large and can increase inequalities later in life. We use recent national-level, cross-sectional and longitudinal data to examine inequalities in child development (namely, language, cognition, and socio-emotional...

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The macroeconomic consequences of early childhood development policies

Daruich, Diego - 2018

To study long-run large-scale early childhood policies, this paper incorporates early childhood investments into a standard general-equilibrium (GE) heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model. After estimating it using US data, we show that an RCT evaluation of a short-run small-scale...

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Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of intervention in early childhood

Wang, Lei; Qian, Yiwei; Warrinnier, Nele; Attanasio, … - 2021

We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...

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Home broadband and human capital formation

Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2021

This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design...

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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men

Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015

This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...

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Occupational choice and the dynamics of human capital, inequality and growth

Dvorkin, Maximiliano A.; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2019

We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with occupation mobility, human capital accumulation and endogenous assignment of workers to tasks to quantitatively assess the aggregate impact of automation and other task-biased technological innovations. We extend recent quantitative general...

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Development, fertility and childbearing age : a unified growth theory

Albis, Hippolyte d’; Greulich, Angela; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2018

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Development, fertility and childbearing age : a unified growth theory

Albis, Hippolyte d’; Greulich, Angela; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2017

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