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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419242
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427523
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Equalization of opportunity : definitions, implementable conditions and application to early-childhood policy evaluation
Andreoli, Francesco; Havnes, Tarjei; Lefranc, Arnaud - 2014
This paper develops a criterion to assess equalization of opportunity that is consistent with theoretical views of equality of opportunity. We characterize inequality of opportunity as a situation where some groups in society enjoy an illegitimate advantage. In this context, equalization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409784
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements : A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085059
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Matching strategies of teachers and schools in general equilibrium
Ahn, Tom - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-31
I use a structural matching model, North Carolina public school data, and a survey of teachers' career plans to analyze schools' and teachers' behaviors in the teacher transfer market. Results show that mid-career teachers with better pre-service qualifications are the most eager to search,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010508395
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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
Adermon, Adrian - 2019
We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870180
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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
Adermon, Adrian - 2019
We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871027
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Public Education Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
Zheng, Angela - 2020
access to quality education in neighborhoods with high house prices. In a dynamic life-cycle model with neighborhood choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853203
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Parental Beliefs About Returns to Educational Investments - The Later the Better?
Boneva, Teodora - 2016
In this paper, we study parental beliefs about the technology which maps parental investments into future child outcomes. We document that parents perceive late investments as more productive than early investments, and that they perceive investments in different time periods as substitutes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994673
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Educational inequality
Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - 2022
of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … acquisition and investment in human capital. The models account for different channels underlying unequal education and highlight … summarize early evidence on the impact of the pandemic on children's education and on possible long-run repercussions for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184262