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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States

Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004

This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...

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Are you on the right track? The effect of educational tracks on student achievement in upper-secondary education in Hungary

Hermann, Zoltan - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2013

in upper-secondary education in Hungary. Rejected and admitted students are compared who applied to the same school and …

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Equality of opportunity in educational achievement in the Middle East and North Africa

Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Hassine, Nadia; Assaad, Ragui - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 4, pp. 489-515

This paper is an empirical investigation of inequality of education opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa … results show that, despite great efforts in past decades to invest in free public education, most MENA countries are less … States. From the variation in inequality of education opportunities across countries and over time we draw lessons on the …

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Gender, Geography and Generations: Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Post-reform India

Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The existing studies report substantial improvements in educational mobility in post-reform India using intergenerational regression coefficient (IGRC) across age cohorts in a cross-section survey. In contrast, our estimates of sibling (SC) and intergenerational (IGC) correlations for the same...

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From Rawlsian autonomy to sufficient opportunity in education

Shields, Liam - In: Politics, Philosophy & Economics 14 (2015) 1, pp. 53-66

Equality of Opportunity is widely thought of as the normative ideal most relevant to the design of educational institutions. One widely discussed interpretation of this ideal is Rawls' principle of Fair Equality of Opportunity. In this paper I argue that theories, like Rawls, that give priority...

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Novel Adaptive Exon Predictor for DNA Analysis Using Singular Value Decomposition

Putluri, Srinivasareddy; Fathima, Shaik Yasmin - In: International Journal of Measurement Technologies and … 6 (2017) 1, pp. 22-32

This article describes how a realistic prediction of the exon regions in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a key task in the field of genomics. Learning of the protein coding regions is a key aspect of disease identification and designing drugs. These sections of DNA are known as exons, that show...

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The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2017

development, set forth in Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, to this important line of …

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The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2017

development, set forth in Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, to this important line of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653202

The macrogenoeconomics of comparative development

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2016

composition of genetic traits across populations. The recent attempt by Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and …

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Recent developments in evolutionary biology and their relevance for evolutionary economics

Knottenbauer, Karin - 2009

The paper gives attention to the question of whether the development of evolutionary theories in biology over the last twenty years has any implications for evolutionary economics. Though criticisms of Darwin and the modern synthesis have always existed, most of them have not been widely...

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