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Rising Educational Attainment and Opportunity Equalization: Evidence from France
2020
Educational policies are widely recognized as the means par excellence to equalize opportunities among children with different social and family backgrounds and to promote intergenerational mobility. In this chapter, we focus on the French case and we apply the opportunity equalization criterion proposed by Andreoli, Havnes, and Lefranc (2019) for evaluating the effect of rising compulsory schooling requirements in secondary education. Our results show that such education expansion has a limited redistributive effect on students’ earnings distribution. Nonetheless, we provide evidence of opportunity equalization among groups of students defined by family background circumstances.
Market Potential and Regional Economic Growth in Spain, 1860-1930
2015
espanolEn este articulo se utilizan tecnicas parametricas y no parametricas para el analisis del impacto de los cambios registrados en el potencial de mercado de las regiones espanolas sobre su dinamica de crecimiento en el periodo 1860‐1930. El estudio del caso espanol permite analizar si la construccion de nuevas infraestructuras de transporte, asi como los cambios en la politica comercial, al afectar al potencial de mercado relativo de las regiones espanolas, acabaron por moldear sus trayectorias de crecimiento. Para la realizacion del analisis se utilizan nuevas estimaciones retrospectivas de PIB per capita de las NUTS III espanolas (provincias) y una estimacion a la Harris del potencia…