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The U.S. economy exhibits high inequality and low economic mobility across generations relative to other high-income countries. The U.S. will need to raise more revenues in order to reduce these disparities, finance much-needed new services and investments, and address the nation's long-term...
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This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens' income information - affects support for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities release income information on Finland's top earners to...
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education and associated years of schooling have expanded substantially in developing countries in recent years. But has this … improvements in the access to the education system and in educational outcomes across the welfare distribution between and within … schooling years. We find great heterogeneity in the distribution of progress of education, with very little pro-poor progress in …
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We study the effects of genetic endowments on inequalities in education, income, and health. Specifically, we conduct … wages for each additional year of education obtained in a US sample. Thus, the implications of genetic endowments are … malleable, for example, via policies targeting education. …
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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should receive more support. The education system should provide more support to students at risk of falling behind to reduce … without affecting learning progress much. Scaling up vocational courses and adult education, including in the context of …
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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital … into a condition of continuous growth through a program of taxes and transfers. Temporary inequality is a necessary … condition to escape in finite time, but long-run inequalities are avoidable provided sufficiently heavy, but temporary taxes can …
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