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Saving and wealth inequality
De Nardi, Mariacristina; Fella, Giulio - 2017
Why are some people wealth rich while others are poor? To what extent can governments affect inequality? Which instruments should they use? Answering these questions requires understanding why people save. Dynamic quantitative models of wealth inequality can help us to understand and quantify...
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Intergenerational mobility of education in Europe : geographical patterns, cohort-linked measures, and the innovation nexus
McNamara, Sarah; Neidhöfer, Guido; Lehnert, Patrick - 2024 - This version: January 16, 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515829
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Skills, education and wealth inequality
Castagno, Elisa; Corvino, Raffaele; Ruggiero, Francesco - 2023
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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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Locus of control and its intergenerational implications for early childhood skill formation
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Warrinnier, Nele - 2016
This paper builds upon Cunha's (2015) subjective rationality model in which parents have a subjective belief about the … future outcomes. Consistent with the theory, we show that maternal LOC measured at the 12th week of gestation strongly …
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Child development in the early years : parental investment and the changing dynamics of different domains
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Bernal, Raquel; Giannola, Michele; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803493
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Parental investments and intra-household inequality in child human capital : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment
Giannola, Michele - 2022 - This version: July 2022
developing world. I study the role played by parents’ educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To … mitigate the identification problem posed by observational data, I design a lab-in-the-field experiment with poor parents in … India. I develop new theory-driven survey measures based on hypothetical scenarios that allow me to separately identify …
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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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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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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521209