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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161622
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A decomposition method to evaluate the "paradox of progress" with evidence for Argentina
Alejo, Javier; Gasparini, Leonardo; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel; … - 2022
The ‘paradox of progress’ is an empirical regularity that associates more education with larger income inequality. Two … education) and the heterogeneity in its returns, as captured by quantile regressions. We propose a joint least-squares and … case of Argentina 1992 to 2015. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013179189
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The impact of COVID-19 on education in Latin America : long-run implications for poverty and inequality
Bracco, Jessica; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2024
on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468167
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China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423987
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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys
Gasparini, Leonardo - 2003
America in the last decade. The two main exceptions are Argentina, with a very large inequality increase, and Brazil, where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941057
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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys
Gasparini, Leonardo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2003
America in the last decade. The two main exceptions are Argentina, with a very large inequality increase, and Brazil, where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022027
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A decomposition method to evaluate the "paradox of progress" with evidence for Argentina
Alejo, Javier; Gasparini, Leonardo; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel; … - 2022
The 'paradox of progress' is an empirical regularity that associates more education with larger income inequality. Two … education) and the heterogeneity in its returns, as captured by quantile regressions. We propose a joint least-squares and … case of Argentina 1992 to 2015. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327929
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The impact of COVID-19 on education in Latin America: Long-run implications for poverty and inequality
Bracco, Jessica; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2024
on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518146
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Inequality in personality over the life cycle
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020
personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239166
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125884