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income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of education and labour earnings by country …, birth cohorts and gender, we show that inequality in education (measured both at quality and quantity levels) affect … estimation using information on government reforming activity in the field of education. By controlling for country-specific and …
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We seek to quantify the role of education as a mechanism through which family background affects earnings. To this end … through the pathway of education and through other mechanisms. The results suggest that educational attainment explains 24 …%-39% of the overall family background effect on earnings in Australia. The mediating role of education seems to be larger for …
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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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Privatization in education is often associated to higher academic performance but greater social inequality on it … to quality education provision. I conclude by discussing how these findings speak to the potential effects that school …
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Our study investigates the social conditions in which the Preferential School Subsidy (SEP) reform implemented in Chile in 2008 has influenced students' achievement in 4th grade. SEP reform has been widely evaluated. However, it is less known how the social conditions under which a reform can be...
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X.” They find that for members of the 1965-1979 birth cohorts, different rates of wage growth by education would …
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Over the last three decades, earnings have grown faster for college graduates than for workers without a 4-year college degree. Such wage-growth differentials could affect the Social Security benefits and other retirement income of future retirees. A Social Security Administration...
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those whose education stopped at high school. However, for individuals whose family income during high school was below 1 … prevalence and robustness of these differential returns to education across race and gender, finding that they are driven by …
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More people in the U.S. graduate from college than ever before. However, earning inequality has been rising (rather than declining) during the past 50 years. Whereas previous literature explained this puzzle by skill-biased technology changes, I argue that there must be additional factors, such...
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Public policy designed to promote greater college enrollment rates has often been justified as a means to reduce income inequalities, yet there is very little evidence that higher college attainment is associated with less inequality. Economic theory at best suggests that the relationship...
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