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Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022

This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the “education-innovation gap,” a syllabus’s relative …

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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 …

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The Effect of Schooling on Parental Integration

Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2024

Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...

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Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021

This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...

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The College Wealth Divide: Education and Inequality in America, 1956-2016

Bartscher, Alina K.; Kuhn, Moritz; Schularick, Moritz - 2019

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …

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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Wößmann, Ludger - 2018

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …

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Seeing Stereotypes

Baldazzi, Elisa; Biroli, Pietro; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2025

Reliance on stereotypes is a persistent feature of human decision-making and has been extensively documented in educational settings, where it can shape students' confidence, performance, and long-term human capital accumulation. While effective techniques exist to mitigate these negative...

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The Effects on Inequality and Mobility of Exposure to Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Nicinska, Anna; Roig, Melcior Rossello - 2025

We compare inequality and social mobility trends in European countries exposed to Soviet Communist (SC) regimes with … measures across regimes, including information on living space and self-reported health, and relevant inequality and mobility … indices for ordinal and categorical data. Our results suggest evidence of comparable welfare inequality trends in countries …

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Disruptive Peers and Academic Performance: Short- and Long-Term Outcomes

Goulas, Sofoklis; Griselda, Silvia; Megalokonomou, Rigissa - 2024

How do disruptive peers shape academic and career paths? We examine this question by leveraging the random assignment of students to classrooms in Greece and identifying the effects of peer disruptiveness on academic performance and career paths. Using suspension hours as a measure of...

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Female Neighbors, Test Scores, and Careers

Goulas, Sofoklis; Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Zhang, Yi - 2022

How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable characteristic of same-age neighbors – their gender – affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in the gender composition of local cohorts at...

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