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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...
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We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This is the first paper, to our knowledge, to provide estimates of sibling...
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This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...
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This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
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types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic … developing country. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings was markedly at the advantage of … women. The bulk of the population came out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education reforms, but the relative …
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This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
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observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we …
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In this paper we assess intergenerational mobility in terms of education and income rank in five Latin American … countries-Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama-by accounting for the education and occupation of both parents. Based on …% to 50%when besides of the education of parents we consider also their occupation. The increase is partic-ularly strong …
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in education. We begin re-examining a recent claim that the correlation coefficient is less biased than the regression …
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intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …
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