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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020

We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the … nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …

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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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Intergenerational mobility in the land of inequality

Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre Andrade de; … - 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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Peers affect personality development

Shan, Xiaoque; Zölitz, Ulf - 2022

Do the people around us influence our personality? To answer this question, we conduct an experiment with 543 … of peers' extraversion, agreeableness, or neuroticism. To explain these results, we propose a simple model of personality … development under the influence of peers. Consistent with the model's prediction, personality spillovers are concentrated in …

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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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Does ignorance of economic returns and costs explain the educational aspiration gap? : evidence from representative survey experiments

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

returns and costs explains educational inequality in Germany. …

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Long-run trends in the U.S. SES-achievement gap

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Peterson, Paul E.; Talpey, Laura M.; … - 2020

Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement …

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The education-innovation gap

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 proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ...

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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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Socio-economic gaps in university enrollment : the role of perceived pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns

Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher - 2017

To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students’ beliefs about the benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that perceived non-pecuniary benefits explain a large share of the...

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