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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 - This version: June 2022

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On … completion is higher. However, a small additional impact on girls’ education due to the Covid-19 induced rise in teenage … pregnancy is observed in some countries. Intergenerational mobility of education decreases from 1 to close to 50 percent …

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Family and gender still matter : the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany

Schnabel, Isabel; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2002

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Income inequality in education, and children's schooling attainment in Brazil

Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Lam, David - 2015

This paper analyzes the determinants of schooling attainment at the household level for 14-years-old in urban regions of Saõ Paulo and Northeast Brazil, using data from the 1982 PNAD. We find mean schooling of 4.75 years in Saõ Paulo, and 3.25 years in the Northeast, both far short of the...

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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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Education inequality

Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - 2022

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Access, achievements, and aspirations : the impacts of school tracking on student outcomes

Bach, Maximilian; Klein, Thilo; McNamara, Sarah - 2024

Though the use of tracking policies to stratify students is commonplace, evi- dence concerning the effects of ability-based tracking on student performance is mixed. Using rich data from the Hungarian secondary school centralized assignment mechanism and a quasi-experimental framework, we find...

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Heterogeneous responses to school track choice : evidence from the repeal of binding track recommendations

Bach, Maximilian - 2021

This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023

productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …

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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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Automation and polarization

Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023

We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior...

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