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Genetic and Socioeconomic Achievement Gaps in Elementary School

Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Ronda, Victor; Agerbo, Esben; … - 2022

Socioeconomic (SES) gaps in academic achievement are well documented. We show that a very similar gap exists with respect to genetic differences measured by a polygenic score (PGS) for educational attainment. The genetic gap increases during elementary school, but only among the low SES...

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Public and Parental Investments, and Children's Skill Formation

Gensowski, Miriam; Landerso, Rasmus; Dale, Philip; … - 2024

This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a longer-run follow-up study of a randomized controlled trial that increased preschool quality and initially improved skills significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is,...

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Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?

Dang, Hai-Anh; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do, Minh N.N.; … - 2023

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few decades. Yet, recent evidence indicates that the country's economic growth has not been uniform. Compiling and analyzing new extensive province-level data from the Vietnam...

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Tackling the Last Hurdles of Poverty Entrenchment: An Investigation of Poverty Dynamics for Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17

Dang, Hai-Anh; Raju, Dhushyanth; Tanaka, Tomomi; … - 2024

Ghana has managed to consistently keep its poverty rate lower than the regional average over the past 25 years, but this positive trend slowed down recently. We investigate the dynamics of overall, moderate, and extreme poverty in Ghana during 2005/06–2016/17, addressing the lack of actual...

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Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility

Jenkins, Stephen P.; van Kerm, Philippe - 2003

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of individuals in the income pecking order. We use it to explain how it was possible both for ?the poor? to have fared...

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Trends in individual income growth: Measurement methods and British evidence

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2011

Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and quantile composition changes over time because of income...

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Trends in Individual Income Growth: Measurement Methods and British Evidence

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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Who Wins and Who Loses from State Subsidies?

Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022

competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and indirect effects of subsidies on … subsidized and non-subsidized firms. We find that firms that receive subsidies experience a boost for productivity. However, our … where other firms are subsidized. These negative externalities depend on the share of firms that receive subsidies in the …

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Child Care in the United States: Markets, Policy, and Evidence

Herbst, Chris M. - 2022

Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for many families, and quality is highly uneven across providers and sectors, raising questions about the impact of child...

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The G.I. Bill and Underemployment

Domnisoru, Ciprian - 2023

While the ill luck of graduating during a recession is understood to potentially result in job mismatch, less is known about the drivers of underemployment outside of business cycles. This paper shows that the college subsidy investments undertaken as part of the WWII, Vietnam War, and Post-9/11...

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