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How much does degree choice matter?
Britton, Jack; Erve, Laura van der; Belfield, Chris; … - 2021
Using a large and novel administrative dataset, this paper investigates variation in returnsto different higher education ‘degrees’ (subject-institution combinations) in the United King-dom. Conditioning on a rich set background characteristics, it finds substantial variation inreturns, even...
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Education inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Fernández, Raquel; Pagés, Carmen; Székely, Miguel; … - 2023
(generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this chapter, we study education inequality in … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …
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Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education
Carneiro, Pedro; Cattan, Sarah; Dearden, Lorraine; … - 2022
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 grew up in the lowest mobility areas - overwhelmingly in...
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Can higher education policy boost intergenerational mobility? : evidence from an empirical matching model
Britton, Jack; Dias, Mónica Costa; Goll, David - 2023
Higher education policy potentially has an important role in improving intergenerational income mobility. We use rich administrative data to estimate a novel two-sided matching model of sorting into field and institution within higher education. We use it to simulate a wide set of policies aimed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014371992
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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?
López Bóo, Florencia - 2013
This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
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Changes in welfare with a heterogeneous workforce : the case of Peru
Robles, Adrian; Robles, Marcos - 2016
of these changes has been less important in reducing income inequality. The main driving force of reduced income … inequality has been the fall in returns to education, which at the same time has been one of the important factors to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457826
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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings …
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Inequality, crime, and the long-run legacy of slavery
Buonanno, Paolo; Vargas, Juan F. - 2017
Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … is largely manifested in persistent levels of economic inequality. Municipality-level economic inequality in Colombia is … is found that inequality increases both property crime and violent crime. The estimates are robust to including …
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Origins of Latin American inequality
Eslava, Francisco; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2023
documenting the broad patterns of national and sub-national differences in income and inequality, building on the seminal … contributions of Engerman and Sokoloff (2000; 2002, 2005) and aiming to capture different dimensions of inequality. We then proceed …, extending their economic results to include different measures of inequality as outcomes. …
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Remote tutoring with low-tech means to accelerate learning : evidence for El Salvador
Zoido, Pablo; Flores, Iván; Hevia, Felipe J.; … - 2023
This paper presents the results of an impact evaluation, with an experimental design, which estimates the effect on learning math of a remote tutoring program offered to girls and boys aged 9-14 years in three departments of El Salvador. The program used low-tech interventions such as text...
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