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documenting the broad patterns of national and sub-national differences in income and inequality, building on the seminal … contributions of Engerman and Sokoloff (2000; 2002, 2005) and aiming to capture different dimensions of inequality. We then proceed … thematically, providing empirical evidence and summarizing the key recent studies on colonial institutions, slavery, land reform …
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different incentives to acquire education for the two ethnic groups. Using rich Danish administrative data, this paper finds … evidence that greater negative attitudes increase incentives for males to acquire education and that networking also increases … immigrant education. …
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Estimating the effect of inequality on crime is challenging due to reverse causality and omitted variable bias. This … paper addresses these concerns by exploiting the fact that, as suggested by recent scholarly research, the legacy of slavery … is largely manifested in persistent levels of economic inequality. Municipality-level economic inequality in Colombia is …
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male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage …
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-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in … productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …
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majority racial groups that had during colonialism been highly segregated in terms of education, occupation, industry and … historical wage gaps still exist and are affected by the government in power. Therefore, this study provides evidence of race … development, using labour market survey data from 1999 to 2015. Despite its history, aggregate racial educational and occupational …
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In this article we evaluate the effectiveness of ethnomathematics education among indigenous children: the JADENKÄ …
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ethnomathematics education program. This article describes and evaluates the impact of JADENKA (pronounced Ha-den-go), an intercultural … ethnomathematics intervention in preschool education through an RCT. The program was designed by a team of experts in early mathematics … magnitude of the impact on mathematics (0.12-0.18 s.d.) is comparable to other bilingual and intercultural bilingual education …
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We measure the extent of discrimination against same-sex couples by schools in Colombia using a matched-pair correspondence study. We send requests to visit private schools from several couples of different sexual orientation as conveyed by the names of the parents. We track the response rate...
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We investigate the assimilation of immigrant youth in Ecuador. Focusing on formal schooling and employing administrative data from high schools, we document subtle ways by which assessment biases against students with an immigrant background play a significant role in this assimilation process....
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