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Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

produced children is the same as among their parents. In such a society, cloning has disappeared. If the distribution of genes …

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Human Capital Formation, Income Inequality and Growth

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2001

production is affected by 'home-education' , provided bythe parents, as well as 'public-education , which is provided equally to …

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The intergenerational transmission of higher education: Evidence from the 1973 coup in Chile

Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2023

across all universities. Using census data, we find that parents who reached college age shortly after 1973 experienced a …

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Public education for the children left behind

Camacho, Carmen; Shen, I-ling - 2010

This paper examines the role of public education in the context of parental migration, and it studies the effects of an expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy may exacerbate income inequality in the long run...

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Revealed beliefs and the marriage market return to education

Andrew, Alison; Adams, Abi - 2022

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …' schooling and marriage. We specify a dynamic discrete choice model in which parents face uncertainty about the quality of their … daughter's future marriage offers. Parents' choices are thus partially driven by their beliefs about the likelihood of …

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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Inequality, human capital formation and the process of development

Galor, Oded - 2011

two decades. Theory and subsequent empirical evidence have demonstrated that income distribution has a significant impact …

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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job training. It begins with a brief discussion of the theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the...

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Redistributive Taxation, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility

Schneider, Andrea - 2007

Education decisions determine a great part of future income. This paper argues that if education is financed by parents …' current income a lump-sum tax reduces inequality if all parents have strict investment incentives. However, if some parents … schooling. Under strict incentives social mobility is not affected, but it increases if skilled parents have weak incentives and …

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Optimal taxation of risky human capital

Jacobs, Bas; Schindler, Dirk; Yang, Hongyan - 2009

In a model with ex-ante homogenous households, earnings risk and a general earnings function, we derive the optimal linear labor tax rate and optimal linear education subsidies. The optimal income tax trades off social insurance against incentives to work and to invest in human capital....

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