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The Impact of Student Aid Eligibility on Higher Education Applications

Remigereau, Camille; Schäper, Clara - 2024

This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from the French national centralized platform. We employ a difference-in-differences approach following a change in the income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find...

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Digital Skills: Social Disparities and the Impact of Early Mentoring

Kosse, Fabian; Leffler, Tim; Woemmel, Arna - 2024

We investigate social disparities in digital skills, focusing on both actual proficiency levels and confidence in these skills. Drawing on a representative sample from Germany, we first demonstrate that both dimensions strongly predict labor market success. We then use this sample to identify...

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Unified Growth Theory: Roots of Growth and Inequality in the Wealth of Nations

Galor, Oded - 2024

What sparked humanity's leap from stagnation to prosperity? What lies at the core of inequality among nations? Unified … of change that have governed the journey of humanity, driven the growth process, and shaped inequality across the globe … stagnation; and (ii) The Mystery of Inequality—the roots of the vast inequality in the wealth of nations. The theory suggests …

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The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality under Economic Uncertainty

van der Ploeg, Rick; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, Ben - 2022

A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and … intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk aversion. If growth increases (reduces) intra-generational inequality, the SDR is … lower (higher) and the SCC higher (lower) than along an inequality-neutral growth path, especially if intra-generational and …

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Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around?

Sockin, Jason - 2022

Do firms that pay more offer better amenities, or does the greater pay compensate for worse amenities? Using matched U.S. employee-employer data, this paper estimates the joint distribution of wages, amenities, and job satisfaction across firms. Fifty amenities are captured applying topic...

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Mapping Educational Disparities in Life-Cycle Consumption

Jensen, Svend E. Hougaard; Olafsson, Sigurdur P.; … - 2022

This paper uses data taken from the tax returns of all Icelandic taxpayers in 2005-2019, a period that saw large changes in disposable income around the country's financial crisis in 2008, to plot the life-cycle path of consumption and income for different education groups and to estimate the...

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Running the U.S. Economy at Full Throttle Is a Stressful Variant of Capitalism

Komlos, John - 2022

stress was generated by debilitating poverty, financial insecurity, by the highest level of inequality among rich countries …

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Is There a Green Dividend of National Redistribution?

Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons - 2022

triggered the demand for income redistribution and wealth taxes not only to reduce inequality but also to reduce CO2 emissions …

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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality

Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...

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Public Finance in the Era of the Covid-19 Crisis

Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022

The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight...

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