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Raising your sights: the impact of friendship networks on educational aspirations

Burgess, Simon; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2011

.2% more likely to expect to stay in full time education after they finish compulsory school. We find similar effects for the … too. Having friends whose mothers hope they will go to university increases the wish to carry on full time education by 30 …

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Effects of Parental Background on Other-regarding Preferences in Children

Bauer, MIchal; Chytilova, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2011

Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society’s welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using binary-choice dictator games to classify subjects into...

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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

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Inequality during the Early Years: Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...

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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel …

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Less Income Inequality and More Growth – Are They Compatible? Part 2. The Distribution of Labour Income

Koske, Isabell; Fournier, Jean-Marc; Wanner, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

can also have an important influence on inequality outcomes, in particular through education and labour market policies … politiques publiques, en particulier l’éducation et les politiques du marché du travail, peuvent aussi avoir une influence … politiques favorisant l’accumulation de capital humain, rendant le potentiel d’éducation moins tributaire de la situation …

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Less Income Inequality and More Growth – Are they Compatible? Part 7. The Drivers of Labour Earnings Inequality – An Analysis Based on Conditional and Unconditional Quantile Regres...

Fournier, Jean-Marc; Koske, Isabell - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

impact on overall earnings inequality. As for tertiary education, the impact remains ambiguous as there are several …

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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

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The “Forgotten” Income Component? The inequality effect of including the value of public services in the income concept

Verbist, Gerlinde - In: Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique L (2011) 4, pp. 169-178

effects of the two major categories of publicly provided services in Belgium, namely education and health care services. We … data from EU-SILC, we find that including in-kind benefits for education and health care in the income concept leads to a …

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A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

Fairlie, Robert W.; Hoffmann, Florian; Oreopoulos, Philip - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar race or ethnicity to their instructors. To address the concern of endogenous sorting, we use both...

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