[HTML][HTML] Early childhood development, human capital, and poverty

O Attanasio, S Cattan, C Meghir - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Children's experiences during early childhood are critical for their cognitive and
socioemotional development, two key dimensions of human capital. However, children from …

The economics of human development and social mobility

JJ Heckman, S Mosso - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2014 - annualreviews.org
This article distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development
and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of …

Government spending and intergenerational income mobility: evidence from China

X Huang, S Huang, A Shui - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021 - Elsevier
By providing public service for equity and reducing the investment gap between rich and
poor children, government spending plays a crucial role in intergenerational income …

Innovation and top income inequality

P Aghion, U Akcigit, A Bergeaud… - The Review of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we use cross-state panel and cross-US commuting-zone data to look at the
relationship between innovation, top income inequality and social mobility. We find positive …

Intergenerational mobility in Africa

A Alesina, S Hohmann, S Michalopoulos… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since
independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2800 …

Returns to skills around the world: Evidence from PIAAC

EA Hanushek, G Schwerdt, S Wiederhold… - European Economic …, 2015 - Elsevier
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the
role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely …

The importance of school systems: Evidence from international differences in student achievement

L Woessmann - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016 - aeaweb.org
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in
other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school …

Where is the land of opportunity? The geography of intergenerational mobility in the United States

R Chetty, N Hendren, P Kline… - The quarterly journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their
parents to describe three features of intergenerational mobility in the United States. First, we …

Consumption inequality

OP Attanasio, L Pistaferri - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016 - aeaweb.org
In this essay, we discuss the importance of consumption inequality in the debate concerning
the measurement of disparities in economic well-being. We summarize the advantages and …

Arrival of young talent: The send-down movement and rural education in China

Y Chen, Z Fan, X Gu, LA Zhou - American Economic Review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
This paper estimates the effects on rural education of the send-down movement during the
Cultural Revolution, when about 16 million urban youth were mandated to resettle in the …