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Can lowering school starting age promote equality of opportunities and reduce the achievement gaps between pupils? We provide evidence on the heterogeneous (positional) effects on early school performance of two mandatory schooling reforms in Norway specifically aimed at reducing achievement...
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variation in the effects of highest education of parents on family’s ability to scale poverty, defined as the household’s income … nationally representative telephone survey that included 86,537 parents of children 0–17 years old. The sample was composed of … parents. The dependent variable was household poverty status (income-to-needs ratio). Race was the focal moderator. Linear …
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are low. Despite evidence on conventional measures that Australia has higher rates of social mobility than the UK or USA …, status persistence for surnames is as high as that in England or the USA. …
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than the UK or USA (Mendolia and Siminski, 2016), status persistence for surnames is as high as that in England or the USA …
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We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their … children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …
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between children of parents with and without secondary education. However, the transmission of residual parental income …
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