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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260827
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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We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education … parental education has had an even stronger impact on attainment. We also find that the positive impact of better school … quality on educational attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for the individuals born in …
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We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education … parental education has had an even stronger impact on attainment. We also find that the positive impact of better school … quality on educational attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for the individuals born in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088780