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Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan – Centre for Economic Performance, 2022
This paper provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across countries, time, and generations, and establish a link…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Social Mobility, Economic Factors
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier – Centre for Economic Performance, 2014
We study the link between parental selection and children criminality in a new context. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment to estimate that the children from these (smaller) cohorts are 40 percent more likely to…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Crime, Behavior Problems, Social Influences