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Income inequality is a critical issue in both political and public debate. Educational attainment is a key causal … factor of continuing inequality, since it influences human capital accumulation and, as a consequence, the unequal … distribution of earnings. Educational inequality displays a racial dimension that is particularly persistent and difficult to …
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Income inequality is a critical issue in both political and public debate. Educational attainment is a key causal … factor of continuing inequality, since it influences human capital accumulation and, as a consequence, the unequal … distribution of earnings. Educational inequality displays a racial dimension that is particularly persistent and difficult to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404956
document that adolescent exposure to TRAP laws has downstream impacts on education. We find that Black women first exposed to … inequality. …
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analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin color, race, gender, and age in award-winning children's books widely … books, even after conditioning on race; we also find that children are depicted with lighter skin than adults on average …
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document that adolescent exposure to TRAP laws has downstream impacts on education. We find that Black women first exposed to … inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698101
quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical … experiments show that using means-tested education subsidies is the most cost-effective single policy option. However, for longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010733809
quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical … experiments show that using means-tested education subsidies is the most cost-effective single policy option. However, for longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075062
quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical … experiments show that using means-tested education subsidies is the most cost-effective single policy option. However, for longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328942
quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical … experiments show that using means-tested education subsidies is the most cost-effective single policy option. However, for longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230511
explain selection at early stages of the education system. Our findings for Uruguay suggest that long-term factors, such as … parental background or ethnicity matter across all education stages while the effect of short-term factors, such as family … income, wear out as individuals progress in the education system, suggesting a severe selection process at early stages. …
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