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Intergenerational Mobility
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Returns to education, intergenerational mobility, and inequality trends in Brazil

Education-related changes are often argued as the main reasons for changes in earnings distribution. However, omitted variable and measurement error biases possibly affect econometric estimates of these effects...

Earnings inequality Schooling reurns Intergenerational Mobility
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Smoothing or strengthening the ‘Great Gatsby curve’?: The intergenerational impact of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme

We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth dependence using a nationally representative longitudinal household survey covering the period 2011–13...

China Intergenerational Mobility Pension
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Regional inequality of economic outcomes and opportunities in Ethiopia: A tale of two periods

This paper provides an informative picture of the extent of regional inequality of economic outcomes and opportunities in the pre-and post-reform Ethiopia...

Horizontal inequality Intergenerational Mobility Economic outcomes
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