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Family background, education, and earnings : the limited value of "test-score transmission"
Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2024
Even the most egalitarian education systems employ high-stakes tests to regulate the transition from universal secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving...
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Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? : insights from Sweden
Forsberg, Erika; Akib Khan; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2024
Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across countries, less is known about heterogeneities across...
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Essays on earnings and human capital in Kenya
Wambugu, Anthony - 2003
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Labour outcomes and family background : evidence from the EU during the recession
Avram, Silvia; Cantó-Sánchez, Olga - 2017
Using EU-SILC data for 2005 and 2011, we compare the role of family background on labour outcomes in three EU countries that experienced large swings in unemployment during this period. We use a multidimensional family background indicator that avoids undesirable cohort effects. Our results...
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The link between family background and later lifetime income : how does the UK compare with other countries?
Jerrim, John Peter - In: Fiscal studies : the journal of the Institute for … 38 (2017) 1, pp. 49-79
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Family size, economics and child gender preference : a case study in the Nyeri district of Kenya
Kiriti, Tabitha W.; Tisdell, Clement A. - In: International journal of social economics 32 (2005) 6, pp. 492-509
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The determinants of university participation in Canada (1977 - 2003)
Christofidēs, Loizos N. (contributor);  … - 2008
family income of prospective students. Family circumstances also play a role. We examine the secular increase in the … ; parental education ; university premium ; gender ; tuition ; income ; societal trends …
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Family structure and child outcomes in the USA and Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - In: Journal of population economics 20 (2007) 1, pp. 183-201
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La distinction reloaded : returns to education, family background, cultural and social capital in Germany
Krenz, Astrid - 2010
, self assurance etc. which in turn might inuence job status, income e.g. A huge body of literature measuring returns to … between income, education and social background, are rare. This study appears to be the first one following an … determines an individual's amount of education which in turn will inuence income. An individual's amount of education does signi …
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Studienfinanzierung durch Humankapitalverträge : eine Marktanalyse
Vietor, Marco - 2010 - 1. Aufl.
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