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Government expenditure in the DINA framework: Allocation methods and consequences for post-tax income inequality

Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2022

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation of the entirety of government expenditure to individuals. About half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g.,...

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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

Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12...

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Social mobility and economic development

Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021

We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...

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An iterative deferred acceptance mechanism for decentralized, fast and fair childcare assignment

Reischmann, Tobias; Klein, Thilo; Giegerich, Sven - 2021

We design and implement an iterative, program-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism with ties (IDAT) and apply it to childcare assignment in two German cities. The mechanism can accommodate complementarities in providers' preferences, is fast to terminate even in larger cities, is difficult to...

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

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

This paper investigates whether the impact of trade shocks on employment and wages persists across generations. Using survey data with retrospective information on parental employment, we study the causal effect of increased Chinese import competition in Brazilian industries on individuals with...

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Sweden's school choice reform and equality of opportunity

Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - 2014

This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This allows...

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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality: Lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2018

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between-country and within-country setup; using harmonized micro data from 18...

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International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - 2007

innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the … cooperation, firm size and the importance of protection methods for knowledge have a positive influence in both countries on the …

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International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

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Women on the board and executive duration: Evidence for European listed firms

Buchwald, Achim; Hottenrott, Hanna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

The participation of women in top-level corporate boards (or rather the lack of it) is subject to intense public debate. Several countries are considering legally binding quotas to increase the share of women on boards. Indeed, research on board diversity suggests positive effects of gender...

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