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Seven economic facts about the U.S. racial wealth gap
Broady, Kristen; Booth-Bell, Darlene; Griffin, Taylor - 2022
disparities in income, employment, homeownership, education, access to credit, and retirement savings - all factors that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013279332
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Circumstances and determination of individual outcomes in Bolivia : family background and equality of opportunities (2003-2013)
Herrera Jiménez, Alejandro; Villegas Quino, Horacio - 2016
income and likewise over achieved years of education. Gathering information for Bolivia and applying the theoretical scheme … characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity) and family background (household characteristics and parental education). We handle and … education level determination in Bolivia. However, we also evidence that within ten years the conditioning of income to those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703371
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Unequal opportunity and growth in India : a dynamic panel analysis by using survey data
Das, Panchanan - In: Asia and the global economy : AGE 2 (2022) 1, pp. 1-8
This study analyses the lack of robust conclusions about the association between inequality and economic growth. On the basis of ex-ante concept of inequality of opportunity, the parametric measure of unequal opportunity is used by partitioning the total sample in to 16 mutually exclusive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334719
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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier - 2017
This paper suggests that societies exhibiting a large degree of educational polarization among its populace are systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly educated citizens are likely to differ fundamentally from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964049
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Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique … features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the … those generated by well-known education inputs, such as parental education and teacher quality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817815
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Wage structure and inequality : the role of observed and unobserved heterogeneity
Boza, István - 2021
matching in productivity. Finally we assess sorting along observable characteristics, such as gender, education, occupation or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601798
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Polarized education levels and civil war
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Jetter, Michael; … - 2016
This paper suggests that societies exhibiting a large degree of educational polarization among its populace are systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly educated citizens are likely to differ fundamentally from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581261
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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018
Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840590
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Long-run expectations of households
Breunig, Christoph; Grabova, Iuliia; Haan, Peter; … - 2019
The rational expectations assumption, e.g. in life-cycle models and portfolio-choice models, prescribes agents to have model-consistent beliefs and to avoid systematic prediction errors. In reality, justi cation and identification of expectations are nontrivial. One way to solve this problem is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139064
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Improving educational outcomes : analyses of intervention and public opinion
Wedel, Katharina - 2024
Katharina Wedel prepared this study while she was working at the Center for the Economics of Education at the ifo … Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapter 2 … sheds light on the interaction of two inputs into the education production function: instruction time and teacher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490033