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-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES … mentoring relationship aff ects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to diff erent quality …
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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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skills after childbirth for both parents between 0.13 (short-run) and 0.16 standard deviations (long-run), but no …Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers' employment and earnings drop … persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to …
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-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the … bite was particularly pronounced. There, the minimum wage lowered both returns to skills and skill supply. We propose a …
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achievements between immigrants and natives. However, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit fairly high … intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …
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rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. … average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12 percentage points overall and by 16 points for children with low …
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-achieving students. The reduction in learning time was not larger for children from lower-educated parents, but it was larger for boys … collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … conducive to child development. The learning gap was not compensated by parents or schools who provided less support for low …
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. The results show that substituting lacking family support by other adults can help disadvantaged children at adolescent … dimensions that are highly predictive of adolescents´ later labor-market success: math grades, patience/social skills, and labor …
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technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents, and reduced their wage penalty within these occupations. We also …
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This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …
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