Age heaping-based numeracy indicators have served as valuable tools to derive basic human capital estimates, especially … multiple of five reports an accurate age. In an empirical analysis we show that the commonly used binary numeracy indicator is …

between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this …

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among … series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …

policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed … information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these …

choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …

about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … also document a sizeable secular decline of parental assortative mating in education, with a corresponding fall in joint …