Das Ziel eines jeden Bildungssystems sein muss es sein, allen Kindern weitestgehend unabhängig von ihrem sozioökonomischen Hintergrund die gleichen Möglichkeiten zur Entfaltung ihres Potentials zu bieten. Dass eine vollständige Entkoppelung von Merkmalen sozioökonomischer Herkunft und...

We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...

In Chapter 2, "Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence: The Impact of Taxation and Public Education Expenditure," I study the determinants of cross-country differences in intergenerational earnings persistence between fathers and sons. Western economies...

This thesis is a collection of three essays with contributions to the intergenerational and intra-generational mobility literature. The essay on full risk insurance and measurement error examines the likelihood that measurement error may reconcile observed departures from perfect rank immobility...

This dissertation contains three essays. The first and second essays examineintergenerational mobility in earnings in Brazil using a data set spanning three generations. I use data from PNAD{a nationally representative household survey inBrazil. I build a three-generations data set consisting of...

Utilizando datos del Programa de Evaluación de Competencias de Adultos (PIAAC, por sus siglas en inglés) de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos, analizamos la brecha en habilidades cognitivas de la población adulta en España con respecto al resto de los países...

En este documento se analiza la forma en que la educación académica y la experiencia profesional correlacionan con el nivel de capital humano, medido por la capacidad cognitiva demostrada en diferentes exámenes numéricos y de comprensión lectora según los datos de la OCDE obtenidos para el...