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Does self-perceptions and income inequality match? The case of subjective social status

Poppitz, Philipp - 2016

-material factors. Besides income and wealth, other dimensions of inequality including education, occupational prestige, parental … health and the education system, which also moderates the relevance of wealth on subjective social status. …

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...

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The impact of later tracking on mortality by parental income in Finland

Ravesteijn, Bastian; Van Kippersluis, Hans; Avendano … - 2017

We investigate whether later educational tracking reduced the intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the...

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

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Gender gap in school learning : micro-level evidence from Morocco

Ibourk, Aomar; El Aynaoui, Karim - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 10 (2024) 2, pp. 1-13

The gender gap in education has been a significant concern for Moroccan policymakers and researchers, but the … percentage is around 20% for the math gap. Pre-school attendance, maternal education, schools, and schools' characteristics are …

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More harm than good? Sorting effects in a Compensatory education program

Davezies, Laurent; Garrouste, Manon - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2014

In this paper, we provide evidence that compensatory education policies that target schools in socially deprived areas …-based compensatory education policies, since they tend to avoid schools that enter the RAR program by enrolling in the private sector. We …

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Parental education better helps white than black families escape poverty: National survey of children's health

Assari, Shervin - In: Economies 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-14

encompasses residential segregation, low quality of education, low paying jobs, discrimination in the labor market, and extra … costs of upward social mobility for minorities, Black families face more challenges for leveraging their education to escape … variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family's ability to scale poverty, defined as the household's income …

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The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK

Gladwell, Catherine; Thomas, Jennie; Chetwynd, Georgina; … - 2018

role of education in creating socioeconomic opportunities, and show how unresolved immigration status detracts from …

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The impact of COVID-19 on education in Latin America: Long-run implications for poverty and inequality

Bracco, Jessica; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2024

on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a …

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The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK

Gladwell, Catherine; Thomas, Jennie; Chetwynd, Georgina; … - 2018

role of education in creating socioeconomic opportunities, and show how unresolved immigration status detracts from …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873867