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Disease Control and Inequality Reduction: Evidence from a Tuberculosis Testing and Vaccination Campaign
Bütikofer, Aline; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2018
municipalities with high tuberculosis prevalence gained more in terms of education, earnings, longevity, and height following this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931674
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Disease control and inequality reduction : evidence from a tuberculosis testing and vaccination campaign
Bütikofer, Aline; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2018
municipalities with high tuberculosis prevalence gained more in terms of education, earnings, longevity, and height following this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892592
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The (Un)Importance of Inheritance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022
inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total … extreme wealth inequality in society. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177600
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Disease control and inequality reduction : evidence from a tuberculosis testing and vaccination campaign
Bütikofer, Aline; Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: The review of economic studies : RES 87 (2020) 5, pp. 2087-2125
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012386872
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The (un)Importance of inheritance
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022
inequality. This paper uses a 19-year panel of administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total … extreme wealth inequality in society. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815788
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Education and Mobility
Machin, Stephen; Pelkonen, Panu; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822153
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Why the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822163
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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822567
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Education, gender and labour mobility
Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Human Capital Over the Life Cycle
and social inequality on the other. The authors focus the analysis on three main aspects of the links between education … areas of education and training in Europe, in relation to the labour market. The book proposes that one of the most … important challenges faced by Europe today is to understand the link between education and training on the one hand and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011146777
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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies
Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education
' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there … to researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914682