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structure, income and parents' education. The empirical analysis indicates that the quality of schools is one of the driving …
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Using data from three waves of PIRLS, this paper examines the effect of teacher quality on fourth-grade students' literacy test scores by exploiting variations induced by reforms in teachers' selection and/or reward schemes. We construct an original data set of relevant reforms taking place at...
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We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...
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We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...
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We quantify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills across 21 countries and the full distribution of working-age individuals. We exploit exogenous variation in educational attainment induced by a broad set of institutional reforms affecting different cohorts of individuals in...
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-linear relationship between these two measures of inequality, actual data indicate that average years of education have a stronger …In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational … attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational …
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inequality, data sources, and stylized facts of wage dispersion for rich countries. The literature explaining the dispersion of … institutional measures and wage inequality incorporates unemployment and working hours dynamics, discussing the problems of matching … negatively correlated to earnings inequality in US and EU countries. …
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