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Intergenerational education mobility of black and white South Africans
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The authors found that the intergenerational education mobility of whites is higher than that of blacks, and that females have a higher inter-generation education mobility than males, while the poorest have the lowest inter-generational educational mobility.Abstract:
Using the October Household Surveys, we found that the intergenerational education mobility of whites is higher than that of blacks. Among blacks, females have a higher intergenerational education mobility than males, while the poorest have the lowest intergenerational education mobility. The lower education mobility of blacks than that of whites indicate that factors such as access to the credit market, as well as the availability and quality of schools, are important determinants of educational attainment. Interestingly, the cross section estimates of black intergenerational education mobility do not differ from those obtained by using pseudopanel data, which control for unobserved community effects.read more
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The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that the global average correlation between parent and child's schooling has held steady at about 0.4 for the past fifty years, with Latin America displaying the highest intergenerational correlations, and the Nordic countries the lowest.
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Parental Priorities and Economic Inequality
TL;DR: Mulligan as discussed by the authors investigated the transmission of economic status from one generation to the next by constructing an economic model of parental preferences, arguing that parental actions are some of the most important sources of wealth inequality.
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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether this is true with respect to the educational attainment of second generation immigrants from Turkey, Morocco, Surinam and the Dutch Antilles in the Netherlands.
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Education Across Generations in South Africa
TL;DR: The 1953 Bantu Education Act centralized control of black education and linked tax receipts from black to public expenditure on their education as mentioned in this paper, which was a central pillar propping up the apartheid system in South Africa.
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Race, Poverty and Deprivation in South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among those of African descent than among whites, by comparing the actual and counterfactual distributions, they show that the racial gap in poverty and deprivation can be attributed to the cumulative disadvantaged characteristics of Africans, such as their current level of educational attainment, demographic structure, and area of residence.
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Schooling, Experience, and Earnings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the distribution of worker earnings across workers and over the working age as consequences of differential investments in human capital and developed the human capital earnings function, an econometric tool for assessing rates of return and other investment parameters.
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Returns to Investment in Education: A Further Update
TL;DR: In the 40-plus year history of estimates of returns to investment in education, there have been several reviews of the empirical results in attempts to establish patterns as discussed by the authors, and many more estimates from a wide variety of countries, including over time evidence, and estimates based on new econometric techniques, reaffirm the importance of human capital theory.
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
TL;DR: The authors argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years and that the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an acceleration in skill bias.