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The Quest for More and More Education: Implications for Social Mobility
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279293
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The Chilean Labor Market: Job Creation, Quality, Inclusiveness, and Future Challenges
Parro, Francisco; Reyes, Loreto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
one of the potential explanations for the fall in income inequality observed during the past three years. However, a … further reduction in income inequality remains an important challenge for the future. Greater access to a quality education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258725
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676292
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Multi-Trait Matching and Intergenerational Mobility: A Cinderella Story
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Empirical studies of intergenerational social mobility have found that women are more mobile than men. To explain this finding, we describe a model of multi-trait matching and inheritance, in which individuals’ attractiveness in the marriage market depends on their market and non-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320404
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Income inequality and mortality in U.S. cities: Weighing the evidence. A response to Ash
Deaton, Angus; Lubotsky, Darren - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2009
income inequality became small, insignificant, and/or non-robust once they controlled for the fraction of each city …’s population that is black. Ash and Robinson (Ash, M., & Robinson D. Inequality, race, and mortality in US cities: a political and … specifications, in one data period, and with one of their alternative weighting schemes, income inequality is estimated to be a risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004257
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Income inequality and mortality in U.S. cities: Weighing the evidence. A response to Ash
Deaton, Angus; Lubotsky, Darren - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2009
income inequality became small, insignificant, and/or non-robust once they controlled for the fraction of each city …’s population that is black. Ash and Robinson (Ash, M., & Robinson D. Inequality, race, and mortality in US cities: a political and … specifications, in one data period, and with one of their alternative weighting schemes, income inequality is estimated to be a risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150054
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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
Andrienko, Yuri; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095500
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Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887064
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Human Development in the Middle East and North Africa
Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
Middle East and North African countries (MENA) have achieved much to be proud of in human development. Falling child mortality and fertility have transformed family structures in most MENA countries. Despite important advances in health, education, and income, there are certain aspects human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674288
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Daddy Months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948876