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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database
Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698961
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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America : a new database
Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698232
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016
economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440819
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality: Lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016
economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441761
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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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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010676292
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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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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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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022
rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275358
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Cross-national rankings of intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology
Blanden, Jo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other … second part of the paper looks for explanations for the differences in earnings and education persistence and finds that … mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126209