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Measuring Educational Inequality in South Africa and Peru
Crouch, Luis; Gustafsson, Martin; Lavado, Pablo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del …
In 2000, Thomas, Wang, and Fan published a paper calling for the application of the Gini coefficient to educational attainment. The idea was to treat educational attainment as a wealth stock, and to calculate Gini coefficients for, say, years of attainment, as a way to see trends within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842309
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Measuring Educational Inequality in South Africa and Peru
Crouch, Luis; Gustafsson, Martin; Lavado, Pablo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del …
In 2000, Thomas, Wang, and Fan published a paper calling for the application of the Gini coefficient to educational attainment. The idea was to treat educational attainment as a wealth stock, and to calculate Gini coefficients for, say, years of attainment, as a way to see trends within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010770512
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Measuring Educational Inequality in South Africa and Peru
Crouch, Luis; Gustafsson, Martin; Lavado, Pablo - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del …
In 2000, Thomas, Wang, and Fan published a paper calling for the application of the Gini coefficient to educational attainment. The idea was to treat educational attainment as a wealth stock, and to calculate Gini coefficients for, say, years of attainment, as a way to see trends within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778588
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Determinants of student achievements in the primary education of Paraguay
Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2009
The idea that schooling scores depend on a combination of family background characteristics, ability and school (institutional) variables is quite clear. Regarding the issue of intergenerational transmission of inequality in the educational system, the most important question would be if and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281833
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
DELOGU, Marco; DOCQUIER, Frédéric; MACHADO, Joël - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075068
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The role of ICT in modulating the effect of education and lifelong learning on income inequality and economic growth in Africa
Tchamyou, Vanessa; Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2019
This study assesses the role of ICT in modulating the impact of education and lifelong learning on income inequality and economic growth. It focuses on a sample of 48 African countries from 2004 to 2014. The empirical evidence is based on the generalised method of moments (GMM). The following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060740
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Education, lifelong learning, inequality and financial access : evidence from African countries
Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2018
This study investigates the role of financial access in modulating the effect of education and lifelong learning on inequality in 48 African countries for the period 1996 to 2014. Lifelong learning is conceived and measured as the combined knowledge gained from primary through tertiary education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794989
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459537
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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America : a new database
Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data availability have restricted a broader and cross-national perspective on the topic. Based on rich sets of harmonized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714448
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2018
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children’s economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between-country and within-country setup; using harmonized micro data from 18...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932596