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of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show … acquisition and investment in human capital. The models account for different channels underlying unequal education and highlight … summarize early evidence on the impact of the pandemic on children's education and on possible long-run repercussions for …
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This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
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weakening of these factors over time. Policies are necessary to improve equality of opportunity in education in Turkey …
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attainment. Our results also demonstrate that education and labor market outcomes are partially the result of a genetic lottery …
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Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...
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In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals …. We instrument years of education using reforms of compulsory education in nine different countries, and find that … education. Our main result is that books at home at age ten have had long-lasting beneficial effects on the individuals who were …
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find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of … economic environment. Interaction effects between under-education and working environments are less clear-cut. However …
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Using administrative data on schools in England, we estimate an education production model of cognitive skills at the …
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rate of over-education is 32.3%. The earnings penalty for each year of over-education is 2.5%, which is larger than 0.6% in …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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