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Opportunity and Inequality across Generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020

schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic …

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Opportunity and Inequality across Generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We analyze how intergenerational mobility and inequality would change relative to the status quo if dynasties had access to optimal insurance against low ability of future generations. Based on a dynamic, dynastic Mirrleesian model, we find that insurance against intergenerational ability risk...

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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation

Daysal, N. Meltem; Hirani, Jonas Cuzulan - In: IZA World of Labor (2021)

Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...

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Sleepwalking through School: New Evidence on Sleep and Academic Performance

Wang, Kurt; Sabia, Joseph J.; Cesur, Resul - 2016

schooling benefits. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines the relationship …

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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2011

schooling outcomes in East and West Germany. Based on data from the German Mikrozensus we find that educational mobility is …

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R&D-based growth in the post-modern era

Strulik, Holger; Prettnerz, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2010

population growth, an implication which is hard to see in the data. Here we integrate microfounded fertility and schooling into …

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The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico

McKee, Douglas; Todd, Petra E. - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 67-100

Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and …

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Educational Deprivation of Children in Andhra Pradesh: Levels and Trends, Disparities and Associative Factors

Venkatnarayana, M. - eSocialSciences - 2006

In line with the perspectives of human capital, human development and human rights, this paper conceives education to be the basic right of children and re-christens all children who are not in school including child labourers and â€˜no-where childrenâ€™, as educationally deprived...

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Public Expenditure on Education : A Review of Selected Issues and Evidence

Mukherjee, Anit N - eSocialSciences - 2007

schooling and better quality of workforce will lead to an increase in the rate of growth, further strengthening the case for …

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The Stability Pattern of Sheepskin Effects and Its Implications for the Human Capital Theory--Screening Hypothesis Debate

Gullason, Edward T. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 25 (1999) 2, pp. 141-149

Typically, the empirical presence of sheepskin effects in the returns to schooling has been used as evidence supporting … according to whether or not they found their accumulated schooling relevant for their occupations. Rate of return estimates on … years of schooling between these two groups of individuals are not stable either. This study demonstrates for the first time …

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