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How do people trade off resources between quick and slow learners?
Falch, Ranveig - 2021
How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from the first experiment designed to elicit people's preferences for how to prioritize educational resources, where 2,000 Americans trade off educational resources between quick and slow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434975
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How do people trade off resources between quick and slow learners?
Falch, Ranveig - 2021
How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from the first experiment designed to elicit people's preferences for how to prioritize educational resources, where 2,000 Americans trade off educational resources between quick and slow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427479
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Exposure to conflict, migrations and long-run education and income inequality: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Efendic, Adnan; Kovaéc, Dejan; Shapiro, Jacob N. - 2022
We investigate the long-term relationship between conflict-related migration and individual socioeconomic inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167913
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Exposure to conflict, migrations and long-run education and income inequality : evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Efendic, Adnan; Kovač, Dejan; Shapiro, Jacob N. - 2022
We investigate the long-term relationship between conflict-related migration and individual socioeconomic inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163179
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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 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/10010293120
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Impact of education on inequality across the wage distribution profile in Cameroon: 2005-10
Baye, Francis Menjo - 2015
This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418626
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Inequality of earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332733
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Anti-discrimination measures in education: A comparative policy analysis
Lenhardt, Amanda; Page, Ella; Sarwar, Moizza Binat; … - 2017
Efforts to tackle discrimination in access to basic services have shown mixed results in different country settings. This study examines the positive and negative outcomes attributed to anti-discrimination measures adopted in different country contexts and analyses the factors contributing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688578
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The impact of government health and education expenditure on income inequality in EU
Jianu, Ionuț - 2018
health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985581
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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931695