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health and education government spending on income inequality in the European Union over the 2002-2015 period. In this …
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consumption expenditure (e.g., education, defense, and the general legal and administrative infrastructure). Because of data … some of the collective consumption expenditure is actually distributed. We focus on public spending on education, which … makes up about 5% of national income in most OECD countries. We find that, in Germany at least, education spending tends to …
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education levels today, particularly among the female. Despite lower education, there is no evidence for adverse labour market …
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technological progress on investments in education and a strongly negative one on fertility. Using two-stage regressions, we assess …A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and, in … interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility. Using unique new data for 21 OECD countries over the …
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We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility – a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …
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Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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observed recession period, the 1980s (1980-82). The data include time-constant demographic variables and marital, fertility …, education, and earnings life histories merged from the SIPP survey and federal administrative sources. Using ordinary logit …
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concentration indices for socioeconomic inequality in health based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) is presented … WORDS: Inequality, Health, Social Capital, European Community Household Panel, Ordered probit. JEL CATEGORY: D31, D63, I10 …
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education, and there is an intimate connection between nutrition and poverty. The measurement of inequality is a highly …How inequality is generated and how it reproduces over time? This has been a major concern of social scientists for … the only one. There is an increasing “inequality” throughout the world. Over the period 1960-2000, the richest 5 % of the …
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