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The distributive Effects of Education: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

Alejo, Javier; Gabrielli, María Florencia; Escudero, … - 2011

exibility and usefulness of UQR methods. Our application for the case of Argentina shows that education contributed positively … to increased inequality in Argentina, mostly due to the effect of strongly heterogeneous effects of education on earnings …. -- unconditional quantile regression ; income inequality ; education ; Argentina …

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China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019

The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...

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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys

Gasparini, Leonardo - 2003

America in the last decade. The two main exceptions are Argentina, with a very large inequality increase, and Brazil, where …

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A decomposition method to evaluate the "paradox of progress" with evidence for Argentina

Alejo, Javier; Gasparini, Leonardo; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel; … - 2022

The 'paradox of progress' is an empirical regularity that associates more education with larger income inequality. Two … education) and the heterogeneity in its returns, as captured by quantile regressions. We propose a joint least-squares and … case of Argentina 1992 to 2015. …

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The Impact of Later Tracking on Mortality by Parental Income in Finland

Ravesteijn, Bastian; van Kippersluis, Hans; Avendano, … - 2017

We investigate whether later educational tracking reduced the intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the...

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...

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Does self-perceptions and income inequality match? The case of subjective social status

Poppitz, Philipp - 2016

-material factors. Besides income and wealth, other dimensions of inequality including education, occupational prestige, parental … health and the education system, which also moderates the relevance of wealth on subjective social status. …

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The impact of COVID-19 on education in Latin America: Long-run implications for poverty and inequality

Bracco, Jessica; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2024

on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a …

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Redistribution without structural change in Ecuador: Rising and falling income inequality in the 1990s and 2000s

Ponce, Juan; Vos, Rob - 2012

This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a new leftist government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly associated...

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The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK

Gladwell, Catherine; Thomas, Jennie; Chetwynd, Georgina; … - 2018

role of education in creating socioeconomic opportunities, and show how unresolved immigration status detracts from …

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