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income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … evidence of positive assortative mating at all levels of education in both countries. However, the time trends vary by the … level of education: Among college graduates, assortative mating has been declining over time, whereas individuals with a low …
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This paper uses data from the American Life Panel to understand the determinants of well-being in the United States during the Great Recession. It investigates how various dimensions of subjective wellbeing reflected in the OECD Better Life Framework impact subjective well-being. The results...
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country with among the highest levels of income inequality in the OECD and a pattern of inequality that appears to be moving … among the longest in the OECD are also creating challenges for work-life balances, child education, personal care and …-level policies improving access to health care and early-childhood education, state-level initiatives favouring workplace flexibility …
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We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate … attained, and education debt using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the National Postsecondary Student Aid …
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closures on the cohorts of children currently in school. Future earnings- and welfare losses are largest for children that … bottom quartile of the income distribution, welfare losses are ca. 0.8 percentage points larger for the poorer children if … welfare gains for the children and raises future tax revenues approximately sufficient to pay for the cost of this schooling …
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closures on the cohorts of children currently in school. Future earnings- and welfare losses are largest for children that … bottom quartile of the income distribution, welfare losses are ca. 0.8 percentage points larger for the poorer children if … welfare gains for the children and raises future tax revenues approximately sufficient to pay for the cost of this schooling …
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the affected children of close to 1%, as well as welfare losses equivalent to about 0:6% of permanent consumption. Due to … impact of the crisis on children's welfare is especially severe for those with parents with low educational attainment and … long-run welfare of the children, with the pandemic-induced income shock to parents playing a secondary role. …
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closures on the cohorts of children currently in school. Future earnings- and welfare losses are largest for children that … bottom quartile of the income distribution, welfare losses are ca. 0.8 percentage points larger for the poorer children if … welfare gains for the children and raises future tax revenues approximately sufficient to pay for the cost of this schooling …
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on children from a Covid-19 induced loss of schooling, as well as the associated welfare losses. Due to self … crisis on children's welfare is especially severe for those with parents with low educational attainment and low assets. The … school closures themselves are primarily responsible for the negative impact of the Covid-19 shock on the long-run welfare of …
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on children from a Covid-19 induced loss of schooling, as well as the associated welfare losses. Due to self … crisis on children's welfare is especially severe for those with parents with low educational attainment and low assets. The … school closures themselves are primarily responsible for the negative impact of the Covid-19 shock on the long-run welfare of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287976