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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

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

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016

economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …

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Social mobility and economic development

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

intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting …

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The empirics of economic growth over time and across nations : a unified growth perspective

Cervellati, Matteo; Meyerheim, Gerrit; Sunde, Uwe - 2022

This research develops an expanded unified growth theory that incorporates the endogenous accumulation of physical capital, population, human capital, and technology. The model incorporates a complementarity between physical capital and human capital and can be extended to a multi-country...

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European-wide inequality in times of the financial crisis

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2015

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality...

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …

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The century of education

Morrisson, Christian (contributor); … - 2009

. Descriptive statistics show a continuous spread of education that has accelerated in the second half of the twentieth century. We …

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Social inequalities in Europe : facing the challenge

Allmendinger, Jutta; Driesch, Ellen von den - 2014

Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …

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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America : a new database

Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017

series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …

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Fickle fossils : economic growth, coal and the European oil invasion, 1900-2015

Fritzsche, Miriam; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2022

Fossil fuels have shaped the European economy since the industrial revolution. In this paper, we analyse the effect of coal and oil on long-run economic growth, exploiting variation at the level of European NUTS-2 and NUTS-3 regions over the last century. We show that an "oil invasion" in the...

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