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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa
Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019
This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102991
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Lofty pine and clinging vine : the educational 'Great Gatsby Curve' and the role of house prices
You, Jing; Ding, Xinxin; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Wang, … - 2015
We investigate the heterogeneous and nonlinear intergenerational transmission channels of education and the impact on … effect drives increasing intergenerational persistence of education over time. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417848
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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161622
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Whose intergenerational mobility? : a new set of estimates for Indonesia by gender, geography, and generation
Sakri, Diding; Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2022
Various scholars have estimated levels of intergenerational mobility in OECD countries. Fewer estimates are available for developing countries, where mobility arguably matters more due to starker differences in living standards. This paper presents new estimates of mobility for a developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816329
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Social mobility and inequality between groups
Funjika, Patricia; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2020
The relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention has been paid to 'vertical' than to 'horizontal' inequality. This paper focuses on mobility and horizontal inequality between ethnic, racial, and culturally-defined groups. Not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165566
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Identity and multigenerational persistence
Srikanth, Chinmayi; Dey, Shubhasis - 2023
turn observed in the persistence mechanism. The study finds that for India, persistence mechanisms for education are indeed … account for endogeneity in the father's education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314757
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Drivers of mobility
Piraino, Patrizio - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2020
Empirical studies in developing countries tend to find higher levels of socioeconomic persistence across generations compared with those of high-income economies. However, there have been relatively few advances in the identification of the drivers of such higher levels of intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161302
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Impact of education on inequality across the wage distribution profile in Cameroon : 2005 - 10
Baye, Francis Menjo - 2015
This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467077
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Anti-discrimination measures in education : a comparative policy analysis
Lenhardt, Amanda; Page, Ella; Sarwar, Moizza Binat; … - 2017
-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634586
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Group-based inequalities : the case of Viet Nam
Hoai, Dang Thi Thu - 2017
/urban groups. While there has been an improvement in horizontal inequality in education, this paper shows little change in other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592927