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Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …

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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning...

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Professional Matura as Inequality Reducing Measure?

Falter, Jean-Marc; Chávez-Juárez, Florian - 2013

Education is a major source of inequality of opportunity, since it has long-lasting effects in various areas such as the labor market. By consequence, public policies aiming at reducing inequality of opportunity in education are likely to have broader effects on the dynamics of inequality in...

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Earnings Benefits of Tulsa's Pre-K Program for Different Income Groups

Bartik, Timothy J.; Gormley, William T.; Adelstein, Shirley - 2011

This paper estimates future adult earnings effects associated with a universal pre-K program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These informed projections help to compensate for the lack of long-term data on universal pre-K programs, while using metrics that relate test scores to valued social benefits....

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Education, Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality

Chusseau, Nathalie; Hellier, Joël - 2013

We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational inequality persistency. It is firstly outlined that the critical increase in the population education level in all countries has not come with lower inequality. The basic tools of...

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Reaching High : Occupational Sorting and Higher Education Wage Inequality in the UK

Kleibrink, Jan; Michaelsen, Maren Marie - 2013

We analyse wage differentials between Higher Education graduates in the UK, differentiating between polytechnic and university graduates. Polytechnic graduates earned on average lower wages than university graduates prior to the UK Further and Higher Education Act of 1992. The reform changed the...

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Opportunity and Inequality Across Generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We analyze how intergenerational mobility and inequality would change relative to the status quo if dynasties had access to optimal insurance against low ability of future generations. Based on a dynamic, dynastic Mirrleesian model, we find that insurance against intergenerational ability risk...

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College Attainment, Income Inequality, and Economic Security : A Simulation Exercise

Hershbein, Brad; Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Pardue, Luke - 2020

We conduct an empirical simulation exercise that gauges the plausible impact of increased rates of college attainment on a variety of measures of income inequality and economic insecurity. Using two different methodological approaches—a distributional approach and a causal parameter...

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Human Capital Spending, Inequality, and Growth in Middle-Income Asia

Abrigo, Michael Ralph M. - 2018

Asia's rapid population aging fortifies the case for strengthening human capital investments. Further, the experience of the newly industrialized economies suggests that human capital investments will be a vital ingredient of the transition from middle income to high income. Those investments...

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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....

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