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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...

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Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

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Inequality in early care experienced by U.S. children

Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021

tend to receive care of higher measured quality and higher cost. Inequality is evident at home as well: measures of …-income households, reduces inequality in care provided, but it is mainly limited to older children and to the lowest income households …

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The PISA shock, socioeconomic inequality, and school reforms in Germany

Davoli, Maddalena; Entorf, Horst - 2018

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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Inequality in personality over the life cycle

Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020

We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles non-parametrically and test for cohort and sample-selection effects. We discuss the economic...

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Degrees of poverty : the relationship between family income background and the returns to education

Bartik, Timothy J.; Hershbein, Brad - 2018

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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On the origins of socio-economic inequalities : evidence from twin families

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023

We propose a twin family model linking twins with their spouses and children to quantify the relative importance of genetic and environmental factors in explaining the variance of socio-economic outcomes. Using data from the Danish Twins Registry and population registers, we test and relax the...

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The dynamics of asymmetry among fertility, income inequality and financial development in Bangladesh

Husain, Humaira - In: World development sustainability 1 (2022) 1, pp. 1-9

income inequality in Bangladesh utilizing annual data from 1984-2019. We employ both linear and non- linear autoregressive … income inequality under assumptions of symmetric and asymmetric relationships between fertility and each of the control … development. However, there exists no significant short run and long- run asymmetries between fertility and Inequality. Families …

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Wealth and politics : studies on inter vivos transfers and partisan effects

Schinke, Christoph - 2016

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Technological diffusion and productivity convergence across European regions: a spatial approach over the period 2000-2015

Manca, Fabio; Piroli, Giuseppe - 2021

What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the major cause of differences in the speed by which following regions converge and catch-up with the most advanced ones. In addition,...

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