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(In)equality in education and economic development

Sauer, Petra; Zagler, Martin - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 60 (2014), pp. 353-379

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(In)equality in Education and Economic Development

Sauer, Petra; Zagler, Martin - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department … - 2014

This paper investigates the relationship between economic development and the average level of education as well as the … degree of inequality in the distribution of education, respectively. Approaching this question in a dynamic panel over 60 … the education Gini coeffcient and average years of schooling, indicating the existence of nonlinear effects. We contribute …

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Inequality of opportunity and economic growth : a cross-country analysis

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lakner, Christoph; Lugo, … - 2014

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal opportunities for investment, might be detrimental to economic progress. We construct two new metadata...

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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

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The great happiness moderation

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - 2012

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...

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Economic growth evens-out happiness : evidence from six surveys

Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2014

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality has dropped in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly...

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The effects of gaps and disparities on economic growth : a study of 10 former socialist countries from the Central and Eastern Europe, members of the EU

Pescu, Maruşa; Ştefan, Camelia - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 18 (2016) 43, pp. 592-610

), education, research and development expenditure, exports, population growth, labour productivity, tax rate, inflation rate and …

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Intergenerational mobility in South Asia

Khan, Zanbaz Ahmed; Patra, Biswajit - In: South Asia economic journal : journal of the Institute … 25 (2024) 1, pp. 7-25

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