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University access : the role of background and Covid-19 throughout the application process
Del Bono, Emilia; Fumagalli, Laura; Holford, Angus; … - 2022
Students from low socio-economic status (SES) or ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to enrol into elite universities than high SES or White students. We use student-level university application data from the UK centralised university admissions service to show that these gaps cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260106
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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 Vietnam. In 2005, Holsinger called for further analysis of education inequality. Here we take up this challenge, with … concept not just to attainment but to input provision and achievement. Third, our analysis is not about the inequality of …
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 Vietnam. In 2005, Holsinger called for further analysis of education inequality. Here we take up this challenge, with … concept not just to attainment but to input provision and achievement. Third, our analysis is not about the inequality of …
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 Vietnam. In 2005, Holsinger called for further analysis of education inequality. Here we take up this challenge, with … concept not just to attainment but to input provision and achievement. Third, our analysis is not about the inequality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778588
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University access: The role of background and Covid-19 throughout the application process
Del Bono, Emilia; Fumagalli, Laura; Holford, Angus; … - 2022
Students from low socio-economic status (SES) or ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to enrol into elite universities than high SES or White students. We use student-level university application data from the UK centralised university admissions service to show that these gaps cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468444
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The effect of banning affirmative action on human capital accumulation prior to college entry
Antonovics, Kate; Backes, Benjamin - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-20
This paper examines how banning affirmative action in university admissions affects both overall academic achievement and the racial gap in academic achievement prior to college entry. Focusing on college-bound high school students, we use a difference-in-difference methodology to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463702
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Weakly progressive : disproportionate higher education attendance and the structure of income taxes
Gubello, Michele; Strecker, Nora Margot - 2022
This paper studies the effect of income tax progressivity on the disproportionate usage of publicly funded higher education. We develop a rational choice model showing that more progressive tax systems increase poorer households' net fiscal benefit, making their children more likely to attend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013447524
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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries
Callan, Tim; Smeeding, Tim; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2008
Direct provision of public services can alter the balance of resources across income groups. We focus on the issues arising when taking account of the impact of publicly provided education services across the income distribution. We combine OECD information on spending per student in particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268713
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Growth, inequality and innovation: A CGE analysis of India
Ojha, Vijay P.; Pradhan, Basanta K.; Ghosh, Joydeep - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 35 (2013) 6, pp. 909-927
augmenting growth and abating income inequality is greater than that of human capital accumulation. In the long term, however …, the latter overtakes the former in promoting growth, but inequality worsens. When the two policies are commingled, growth … improves but it continues to be inequality-augmenting. Finally, with concomitant Hicks-neutral technological progress, not only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010709422
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Tracking, Inequality and Education Policy. Looking for a Recipe for the Italian Case
Azzolini, Davide; Vergolini, Loris - Istituto per la Ricerca Valutativa sulle Politiche …
relationship between tracking and inequality in Italy. We address the issue of inequality in access to the different school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071754