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We investigate the effect of higher education on the evolution of inequality. In so doing we propose a novel … initial phase in which no social class invests in higher education of their children such that inequality is driven by … bequests. Once a certain income threshold is surpassed, the rich start to invest in higher education of their children, which …
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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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used to study Hispanics, we document how Hispanics currently compare with other Americans in terms of education, earnings … immigrant generations, Hispanics experience substantial improvements in education and earnings between first …
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What are the consequences of religious obligations conflicting with civic duties? We investigate this question by evaluating changes in the performance of practicing Muslim students when end-of-secondary-school exams and Ramadan overlapped in the Netherlands. Using administrative data on exam...
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turn observed in the persistence mechanism. The study finds that for India, persistence mechanisms for education are indeed … relation, the study contends that policymakers must target inequality rather than generational persistence. This study is also … account for endogeneity in the father's education. …
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Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
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Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
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We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...
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administered by the Danish Ministry of Education. Our results indicate that fetal exposure to Ramadan has a negative impact on the … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …
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Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm substantial inequality of educational achievements between immigrants and …
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