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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice : evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations

Bach, Maximilian - 2021

This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...

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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …

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Lofty pine and clinging vine: The educational 'Great Gatsby Curve' and the role of house prices

You, Jing; Ding, Xinxin; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Wang, … - 2015

We investigate the heterogeneous and nonlinear intergenerational transmission channels of education and the impact on … effect drives increasing intergenerational persistence of education over time. …

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Intergenerational mobility in Latin America: The multiple facets of social status and the role of mothers

Ciaschi, Matías; Marchionni, Mariana; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2023

In this paper we assess intergenerational mobility in terms of education and income rank in five Latin American … countries-Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Panama-by accounting for the education and occupation of both parents. Based on …% to 50%when besides of the education of parents we consider also their occupation. The increase is partic-ularly strong …

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Cross-national rankings of intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology

Blanden, Jo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other … second part of the paper looks for explanations for the differences in earnings and education persistence and finds that … mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …

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School tracking and intergenerational social mobility : postponing school tracking can increase social mobility without significant adverse effects on educational achievement

Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014

The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...

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Does family background affect earnings through education? : a generalised approach to mediation analysis

Mendolia, Silvia; Siminski, Peter - 2016

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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On the family origins of human capital formation: evidence from donor children

Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2021

nurture interpretation. Once we take account of genes, we find that only the education of mothers matters: the association … between mother's education and child test scores is significant and large, whereas the association between father's education …

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Social mobility in Germany

Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021

expanding upper secondary education. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place …

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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