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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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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022
rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275358
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016
economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440819
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015
economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459537
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On the family origins of human capital formation: evidence from donor children
Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2021
nurture interpretation. Once we take account of genes, we find that only the education of mothers matters: the association … between mother's education and child test scores is significant and large, whereas the association between father's education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612662
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Opportunity and inequality across generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879620
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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019
We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001644
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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019
We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002423
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2018
. Following the same methodology, the influence of economic growth and public education is evaluated: both are positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932596
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The decline of routine tasks, education investments, and intergenerational mobility
Bennett, Patrick; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting … decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … vocational-trades education and increasingly invest in college education. Our results highlight that labor demand changes impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233044