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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 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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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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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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how this higher education (HE) expansion affected inequality in household net incomes in the 2000s. We show that, all else … benefited households from the middle and top of the distribution more than the bottom, income inequality increased. Despite the … increasing share of high-educated workers, we find no evidence of a 'compression' effect on inequality, as the HE wage premium …
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