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Social mobility is a key element of meritocratic societies. We analyze multigenerational social mobility with a hand-collected yearly Swiss dataset from 1550 to 2019. With our surname-based approach, we measure the Swiss society's overall permeability over more than 450 years. Furthermore, we...
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Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for...
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In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We collect detailed time-use information on students before...
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. Specifically, I incorporate the task framework into an overlapping generations model, which models education choice as a function …
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number of graduates. We use each pupil's comprehensive school grades to control for previous education / pupil quality. Also …
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An overall picture of the education system in the countryside reveals that there are still schools that are not … importance that education has in in personal development of individuals and of society implicitly, there are not few schools that … terms of ensuring adequate infrastructure for a quality education or at least comparable to that in the urban area - clean …
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education would have recovered quickly, and especially for the scenario in which the crisis persisted for a longer period … (several months), and in this case the solutions should provide equal access to education for all children and young people. We … world, including Romania. On the long term, this action has had, and will continue to have negative effects on education …
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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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The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on education in Romania and worldwide. Radical measures have been … necessary in the field of education, to limit the spread of the virus (like in all the fields affected by the pandemic). One of … these measures - the closure of schools, universities and other education institutions and the shift to online learning …
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Compulsory schooling increases average level of education in a country and provides other benefits, its effect on … increase in the dispersion of the shares of people with voluntary education across space. We find that that an increase in …
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