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Breaking the barriers to higher education : the long-term benefits of a boarding school for disadvantaged students

Behaghel, Luc; Chaisemartin, Clément de; Gurgand, Marc - 2026

Intergenerational mobility in France is limited. "Boarding Schools of Excellence" support disadvantaged adolescents through structured environments and improved learning conditions. Using a randomized controlled trial, this paper estimates the long-term effects of one such school. It halves...

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Educational Access and Learning Outcomes in Myanmar

Fukao, T.; Katwal, S.; Kyaw, A. P.; Thwin, M. M. - 2026

Myanmar’s education system stands at a critical juncture, shaped by overlapping crises and significant resilience. Following years of conflict, political instability, and economic stress, recent data reveal both progress and persistent vulnerabilities. Primary school enrollment has largely...

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Does government spending on education increase intergenerational education mobility? : the case of Free Compulsory Basic Education in Ghana

Branson, Nicola; Whitelaw, Emma - 2026

This paper examines whether Ghana's education reforms have increased intergenerational education mobility. Using the newly constructed Ghana Education and Labour Series-a harmonized dataset combining multiple rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey-we track intergenerational education...

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Intergenerational education mobility trends in South Africa : patterns by population group

Branson, Nicola; Ressom, Hagos - 2026

South Africa's education system remains shaped by a legacy of colonialism and apartheid, with persistent racial disparities in attainment despite multiple post-1994 reforms. Using wave 5 of the National Income Dynamics Study, this paper examines intergenerational education mobility across...

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Inequality of Opportunity in South Asia : The Puzzle of Educational Gains Without Consumption Gains

Bussolo, Maurizio; Peragine, Vito; Reutzel, Fabian - 2026

More than two decades of sustained economic growth in South Asia brought significant reductions in poverty, yet inclusive social progress has remained elusive. Using a pseudo-panel approach with a large-scale harmonized dataset of 20 million observations across seven South Asian countries, this...

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Progress and persistence : intergenerational educational mobility and the evolving role of race in South Africa

Köhler, Tim; Oosthuizen, Morné - 2026

How does the role of key inherited circumstances in explaining intergenerational mobility change over time as economies undergo major structural changes? We examine this question in the context of intergenerational educational mobility in South Africa-one of the most unequal countries in the...

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Failure to compensate or failure to reward? : a decomposition of inequality of opportunity

Bosmans, Kristof; Dormans, Bart; Öztürk, Z. Emel - 2026

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Measuring inequality of opportunity in Asia and the Pacific

Datt, Gaurav; Nguyen, John; Salas-Rojo, Pedro; … - 2026

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Measuring inequality of opportunity in Asia and the Pacific

Datt, Gaurav; Nguyen, John; Salas-Rojo, Pedro; … - 2026

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Socio-economic inequality underpins inequity in influenza vaccination uptake between public and private secondary schools : an Australian population-based study

Le, Huong; Blyth, Christopher C.; Schlegel, Clement; … - 2026

Background: Socio-economic inequality and vaccination inequity have long been critical issues. However, no studies have explored the gap in influenza vaccination uptake between public and private schools. Importantly, the extent to which socio-economic inequality translates into vaccination...

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College access and notability in the United States

Stemper, Samuel - 2026

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Wealth inequality : opportunity for me or for others?

Chaliasos, Michaēl; Jansson, Thomas; Karabulut, Yigitcan - 2026

Early exposure to local wealth inequality and salient wealth transitions propagates both. Unique administrative data and a quasi-field experiment with exogenous assignment show that this exposure leads better-educated, but not less-educated, households to take financial, real-asset, and...

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Wealth inequality : opportunity for me or for others?

Chaliasos, Michaēl; Jansson, Thomas; Karabulut, Yigitcan - 2025

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Inequality of opportunity in times of rising global inequality : USA vs. Switzerland

Bühler, Jonas; Davis, Jonathan; Häner, Melanie; … - 2026

We provide a comparative analysis of inequality of opportunity for children's future success in Switzerland and the United States during an era of rising global inequality. Leveraging Swiss administrative earnings data and U.S. survey data, we estimate sibling correlations for cohorts entering...

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Brief yet effective : group counseling and college access for disadvantaged students

Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Eluchans Errázuriz, Josefina - 2026

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Online testing and educational inequality : evidence from a national standardized test in Australia

Posso, Alberto; Miranti, Riyana - 2026

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Perceived fairness in access to higher education in wartime Ukraine : social inequalities and trust in admission testing

Mishchuk, Halyna; Krol, Vita; Bilan, Yuriy - 2026

The accessibility of higher education during wartime is an essential tool for reducing inequality, retaining talent for post-war recovery, and advancing human development. To increase access to higher education amid a deficit in public finances, Ukraine has introduced mandatory Standardised...

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Inherited inequality in Latin America

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2026

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Inherited inequality in Latin America

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2025

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Inherited inequality in Latin America

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2025

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Inherited inequality in Latin America

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2025

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Kumon up : private tutoring centers and student achievement

Goodman, Joshua S.; Nitkin, Samuel - 2026

Private tutoring chains like Kumon and Sylvan have expanded rapidly in recent decades. Combining data on business locations, household spending, and district test scores, we study who uses these centers and how they affect academic skills. Nearly half of tutoring users are from the top income...

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Kumon up : private tutoring centers and student achievement$dJoshua Goodman, Samuel Nitkin

Goodman, Joshua S.; Nitkin, Samuel - 2026

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Regulating private tutoring : human capital formation, inequality, and intergenerational mobility

Yang, Zixiao - 2026

This paper develops a quantitative partial-equilibrium overlapping-generations model to study how private tutoring regulation affects human capital formation, household welfare, educational inequality, and intergenerational mobility. The analysis is motivated by a broader development-economics...

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Ability, not heritage : why expanding university access often fails to narrow intergenerational educational gaps

Åstebro, Thomas; Hällerfors, Henrik; Bergh, Andreas; … - 2025

Many countries have established new local colleges to increase access to education for disadvantaged populations. However, many of these expansions have not reduced educational inequality. Drawing on evidence from a large-scale college expansion initiative, we find that increased college...

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Ability, not heritage: why expanding university access often fails to narrow intergenerational educational gaps

Åstebro, Thomas; Hallerfors, Henrik; Bergh, Andreas; … - 2025

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Are high school degrees and university diplomas equally heritable in the US? : a new measure of relative intergenerational mobility

Naszodi, Anna; Cuccu, Liliana - 2025

This paper proposes the application of an existing measure in a new context. Specifically, we adapt a measure originally proposed to characterize the degree of educational assortative mating to measure relative intergenerational mobility along the educational trait and inequality of opportunity....

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The school completion programme revisited

Smyth, Emer; Hingre, Garance; Darmody, Merike - 2025

The School Completion Programme was established in 2002 to provide support for children and young people at risk of early school leaving and is part of a suite of supports offered through the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS)1 programme. The programme is run by Tusla Education...

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Voor jou en je kind! : procesevaluatie pilot 2024/2025

Havermans, Willemijn; Smeets, Chayenne; Wetten, Sanne … - 2025

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Inclusive STEM education to fight poverty and inequality : the case of South Africa

Sedebo, Getachew T.; Shafi, Ajebush Argaw; Muchie, Mammo; … - 2025

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Inherited inequality, meritocracy, and the purpose of economic growth

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Brunori, Paolo - 2025

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Inherited inequality, meritocracy, and the purpose of economic growth

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Brunori, Paolo - 2024

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The making and unmaking of opportunity : educational mobility in 20th-century Denmark

Karlson, Kristian B.; Landersø, Rasmus - 2025

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The making and unmaking of opportunity : educational mobility in 20th century-Denmark

Karlson, Kristian B.; Landersø, Rasmus - 2021

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Inclusive Education

2025

The World Bank commits to removing barriers to inclusive education so that the right to education may be upheld for all children and youth, including learners from poorer households and/or rural and remote communities, persons with disabilities, ethnic- and linguistic minorities, Indigenous...

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The effects of increasing compensatory resource allocation on student achievement : evidence from the equity grant in the Swedish compulsory school

Rosenqvist, Olof; Sauermann, Jan - 2025

Substantial and persistent differences in learning outcomes between schools largely caused by school segregation is a recurrent issue in many countries and is seen as a threat against equality of opportunity. Compensatory resource allocation policies are sometimes used to mitigate this problem,...

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Polarization of opportunity

Salas-Rojo, Pedro; Jordá, Vanesa; Brunori, Paolo - 2025

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Is gender destiny? : gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2025

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Is gender destiny? : gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2021 - This version: March 22, 2021

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Does the pattern of ICT possession exacerbate inequality in educational opportunities between students with and without disabilities? : evidence from Egypt

El-Saadani, Somaya; Metwally, Soha; Abdelaziz, Wafaa - 2025

This study aims to analyze to what extent distance education is feasible and efficient with the limited technological infrastructure in Egypt. The study answers this question from the perspective of households' preparedness level regarding possessing information and communication technologies...

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Inequality of opportunity in education in Spanish regions : a machine learning approach

Bencomo-Mesa, Pablo; Marrero, Gustavo A.; Sicilia, Gabriela - 2025

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Inequality of opportunities, institutional distrust, and beliefs about socio-economic outcomes in the Western Balkans

Drishti, Elvisa; Duhanxhi, Idlir; Mehmetaj, Nevila; … - 2025

This paper explores how inequality of opportunities (IOp) and institutional distrust shape beliefs about social and economic outcomes in the Western Balkans. Drawing on data from the Public Opinion Survey (2017-2021) conducted by the Regional Cooperation Council, we apply a robust multivariate...

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Equality of opportunity and efficiency in tertiary education : a data-driven perspective

Farella, Fabio - 2025

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Relative school starting age and educational inequality

Sontheim, Valentina - 2025

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Inequality of opportunity in body mass : evidence from Australia

Vijayasivajie, Anushiya; Mukhopadhaya, Pundarik; … - 2025

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Inequality of opportunity and fertility intentions

Ma, Bianjing; Wu, Jiahao; Yu, Yu - 2025

Today's parents prioritize their children's future opportunities and well-being over the costs and benefits of child-rearing. Inequality of opportunity (IO) worsens children's developmental prospects and reduces fertility intentions. Using nationally representative data from China, we show that...

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The measurement and decomposition analysis of inequality of opportunity in China’s educational outcomes

Zhang, Jie - 2025

This paper uses China's Census data from 1982 to 2005 to measure and decompose the degree of inequality in educational opportunity (IOE). We apply the parameter estimation method from an ex-ante perspective and the Shapley value decomposition method to calculate the contribution of...

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Private tutoring and academic achievement in a selective education system

Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2025

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Private tutoring and academic achievement in a selective education system

Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

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Private tutoring and academic achievement in a selective education system

Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

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Private Tutoring and Academic Achievement in a Selective Education System

Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

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Private Tutoring and Academic Achievement in a Selective Education System

Zumbuehl, Maria; Hof, Stefanie; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

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Out-of-school children in the Philippines : post-pandemic realities and emerging challenges at the educational spectrum extremes

Albert, Jose Ramon; Monterola, Sheryl Lyn C.; Cabalfin, … - 2025

The magnitude of out-of-school children (OOSC) in the Philippines has shown both progress and challenges in recent years. While the national OOSC rate decreased from 5.9% (1.64 million children) in 2017 to 4.1% (1.16 million children) in 2022, and further improved to 4.9% in 2023, troubling...

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Girls dominate, boys left behind : decomposing the gender gap in education outcomes in Jamaica

Wright, Nicholas A. - 2025

This paper utilizes administrative data to investigate the gender gap in high school performance on various high-stakes exams and the gender disparity in academic outcomes at the leading university in the Caribbean. The results show that female students outperformed their male peers, being 8.5...

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Girls dominate, boys left behind : decomposing the gender gap in education outcomes in Jamaica

Wright, Nicholas A. - 2024

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Inequality of opportunity in income and education : evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Vasilescu, Maria Denisa; Stănilă, Larisa - 2025

Inequality of opportunity is a critical issue that significantly impacts the socioeconomic landscape. Understanding the variations in income and educational attainment has become increasingly important, as these disparities are often shaped by social determinants such as individual effort and...

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Who gets ahead? : measuring income gaps across family backgrounds

Vries, Sander de - 2025 - Revision: September 2025

Measuring income gaps across family backgrounds is crucial for evaluating inequality and informing policy. I develop a multidimensional approach and apply it to Dutch administrative data with exceptionally rich information on parents and extended family. This approach reveals strikingly larger...

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Del dogma pedagógico al apartheid educativo: el sesgo clasista de la brecha cognitiva en la educación media en Bogotá

Alfonso R., Óscar A. - 2025

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A stairway to success : how parenting shapes culture and social stratification

Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2025

This chapter argues that parenting choices are a central force in the joint evolution of culture and economic outcomes. We present a framework in which parents - motivated by both their children’s future success and their own normative beliefs - choose parenting styles and transmit cultural...

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A stairway to success : how parenting shapes culture and social stratification

Agostinelli, Francesco; Doepke, Matthias; Sorrenti, Giuseppe - 2025

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Opportunity bottlenecks : an empirical application

Cojocaru, Alexandru - 2025

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Social origins and field of study

Scervini, Francesco; Volponi, Laura - 2025

Horizontal gender segregation in education negatively impacts both equity and efficiency in the labor market, contributing to disparities in career opportunities and economic outcomes. This paper examines the influence of social origins on gender segregation in Italian tertiary education over...

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Widening access in university admissions

Doğan, Battal; Erdil, Aytek - 2025

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Widening Access in University Admissions

Doğan, Battal; Erdil, Aytek - 2023

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The network of injustice : a novel approach to inequality of opportunity

Colcerasa, Francesco; Giammei, Lorenzo; Subioli, Francesca - 2025

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The network of injustice : a novel approach to inequality of opportunity

Colcerasa, Francesco; Giammei, Lorenzo; Subioli, Francesca - 2025

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Roots of opportunity : influences of early-life health on intergenerational mobility in a developing country

Quintão, Giovanna Pavlovic; Scorzafave, Luiz Guilherme - 2025

This study investigates the long-term effects of early-life health on intergenerational mobility in Brazil. Using the first cohort in Brazil, conducted in Ribeirão Preto city in 1978-79, linked to administrative income records, we study the effects of low birth weight on upward mobility and...

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