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was found to increase household income, it increases income inequality in rural Vietnam. Our research findings suggest … that improving the access of poor households to better education is expected to increase their income and reduce inequality …
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more advantaged families. Many countries have tried to reduce this inequality through publicly provided preschool. Evidence … on the potential of these programs to reduce inequality in child development is now quite strong. Long-term studies of …
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mobility and income inequality. In this sense, this work presents empirical evidence for the existence of the "Great Gatsby … income inequality might lead to a lower investment in human capital among children from socially vulnerable households. The … in states with a higher level of income inequality. …
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Drawing on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we document a startling empirical pattern: the career earnings premium from a four-year college degree (relative to a high school diploma) for persons from low-income backgrounds is considerably less than it is for those from higher-income...
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premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …
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In Germany, the poor performance in PISA 2000 stimulated a heated public debate and a strong policy response. The government reacted to the low average and remarkable disparities registered by the test, and spurred reforms led to a significant improvement in the country fs educational...
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In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … good quality. This study investigates inequality in past attainment, in current school access, and learning or educational …
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socioeconomic inequality by enhancing human capital formation. Yet, within the household how are such gains achieved? We use a field …(s). An unintended consequence is that intrahousehold inequality increases and aggregate gains from the program are overstated …
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levels of inequality. In other words, a higher level of "elitism", i.e., large gap in quality of universities, and tight … inequality than most of the other OECD countries. …
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Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality …. Decomposition of these 'quantity' and 'price' components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in … inequality, returns to schooling and earnings inequality. We focus on two main questions. What is the relationship between …
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