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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America : a new database
Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714448
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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America : a new database
Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698232
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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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Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences : prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - 2021
policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed … information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534595
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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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Impact of education on inequality across the wage distribution profile in Cameroon : 2005 - 10
Baye, Francis Menjo - 2015
This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467077
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How do people trade off resources between quick and slow learners?
Falch, Ranveig - 2021
How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from the first experiment designed to elicit people's preferences for how to prioritize educational resources, where 2,000 Americans trade off educational resources between quick and slow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427479
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Parental investments and socio-economic gradients in learning across European countries
Carneiro, Pedro; Reis, Hugo; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2024
Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high-quality public schools, are all notable features of Nordic countries. There is a widespread belief that such strong public investments in children contribute to a levelled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014484538
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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