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opportunity by increasing mobility through such policies as equal provision of public education. This paper argues that this …
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opportunity by increasing mobility through such policies as equal provision of public education. This paper argues that this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146862
This article analyses the intergenerational evolution of nutritional inequality in Spain between 1840 and 1984. With male height data (N=358,253), the secular trend of biological well-being and intergenerational anthropometric inequalities are studied based on the coefficient of variation,...
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …
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We conduct an empirical simulation exercise that gauges the plausible impact of increased rates of college attainment on a variety of measures of income inequality and economic insecurity. Using two different methodological approaches-a distributional approach and a causal parameter approach-we...
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Canada. At the same time, returns to education have gone up. Both factors have contributed to exacerbating income gaps … between children of parents with and without secondary education. However, the transmission of residual parental income … education. Overall, these patterns suggest that fostering high school completion may help slow down the worsening of …
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, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The …) especially when compared with that found in Western Europe (15 percentage points on average). What prevents Argentina, Bolivia … the country. When in-kind transfers in education and health are added, however, the bottom six deciles are net recipients …
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, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The …), especially when compared with that found in Western Europe (15 percentage points on average). What prevents Argentina, Bolivia … on the country. When in-kind transfers in education and health are added, however, the bottom six deciles are net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035901
studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
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