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We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family … uneducated fathers face lower relative and absolute mobility (rural and urban). We find gender equality in absolute mobility for …
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We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational … concave or convex, and gender biasaffects both relative and absolute mobility. We test these predictions in India and China … the gender gap closes when the fathers are collegeeducated. In China, the CEF is convex for sons in urban areas, but …
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We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational … persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …
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's education is strongest at the post-primary levels. Our results suggest that there is strong gender bias in intergenerational …
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We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided us by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm...
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We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against registry data provided by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm substantial...
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We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational … persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …
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We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of intergenerational … India. The gender gap closes in urban India when the father is college educated, but not in rural areas. The college … educated urban households achieve gender convergence despite persistent bias against the daughters in educational expenditure …
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's degree. We measure gender norms using economic outcomes as well as beliefs prevailing in the migrants' parents' country of …Cross-country differences in the gender gap of higher education attainment are large. In this paper, we study the role … of gender norms for this particular gender gap. To isolate the effect of gender norms from institutional and economic …
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that of fathers. In terms of gender differences, there is the evidence of a dependency burden in the occupational choice of …
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