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centers. In this paper, we provide evidence of the effects of gentrification on local amenities and sorting. We exploit the … increases housing demand. The treated blocks experience improvement in local amenities. New residents are willing to pay higher … housing costs, housing rents increase by 9%, and to have larger commutes to work to locate in those neighbourhoods. We show …
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national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in … inequality in India but only since 2004. We also document an increase in between group (or horizontal) inequality over the entire … period. We then investigate the impact of ethnic fragmentation and public good provision on inequality. We hypothesize that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653917
national, state, and district-level figures for overall, within and between consumption inequality. We find an increase in … inequality in India but only since 2004. We also document an increase in between group (or horizontal) inequality over the entire … period. We then investigate the impact of ethnic fragmentation and public good provision on inequality. We hypothesize that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540190
This paper investigates whether centralized admissions systems can alter school segregation. We take advantage of the … of residential segregation and local school supply. For instance, districts with prominent provision of private education … experience an uptick in school segregation due to SAS. Migration of high-SES students to private schools emerges as a key driver. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228362
We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of … distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in opposite directions in poor and rich economies. A mean preserving spread …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480833
We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of … distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in opposite directions in poor and rich economies. A mean preserving spread …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462771
This paper examines the nature and evolution of horizontal and vertical human-capital inequality in South Africa since … inequality has been falling in South Africa although with significant variation across the country. Finally we examine the … relationship between changing inequality over time and electoral outcomes. We find that vertical inequality amongst youth is very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653913
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931695
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931942
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932975