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, low-income students are found to increase their earnings by 26% ten years later. However, admission has a small and … insignificant effect on high-income students. The difference between income groups is not explained by educational attainment …, program choice, or selection into better-paying jobs. The evidence suggests that most low-income applicants, if not admitted …
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reduces contemporaneous academic performance, final educational attainment and labor income throughout the life-cycle. The …
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scores, and sizable effects on college attendance and enrollment at more selective institutions, in particular for low-income …
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interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …
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We use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s …. We find huge differences across the country, with a strong North-South gradient. Children from low-income families who … lower in the income distribution as adults compared to those from the highest mobility areas - overwhelmingly in the South …
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We explore the effects of a randomly assigned conditional cash transfer in Honduras (Bono 10000) on early childhood development. We find significant impacts on cognitive development in children 0-60 months, with an average effect size of 0.13 SD. We show differential impacts by type of transfer:...
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This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin American and Caribbean countries and examines the implications of such transformations for childrens school attendance and progress and womens labor force participation. Latin...
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