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Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020

-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270065

Mentoring and schooling decisions: Causal evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Dovern-Pinger, Pia Rosina - 2020

-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290378

Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia - 2020

program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES children …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290547

China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019

The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423987

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

Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 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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The name says it all. Multigenerational social mobility in Switzerland, 1550-2019

Häner, Melanie; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2021

Social mobility is a key element of meritocratic societies. We analyze multigenerational social mobility with a hand-collected yearly Swiss dataset from 1550 to 2019. With our surname-based approach, we measure the Swiss society's overall permeability over more than 450 years. Furthermore, we...

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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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Skills, Parental Sorting, and Child Inequality

Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - 2022

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296568

Skills, Parental Sorting, and Child Inequality

Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - 2022

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014321773

Trade shocks and social mobility: The intergenerational effect of import competition in Brazil

César, Andrés; Ciaschi, Matías; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023

shock, children of more exposed fathers have lower education and earnings, lower chances of formal jobs, and are more likely …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426908