EDUCATION AND MOBILITY

Education and social mobility

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Education Systems and Intergenerational Mobility

www.econstor.eu Education and Social Mobility

This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas welfare maximization calls for the most elitist system. We show that when private education is available, the degree of elitism that maximizes social mobility i...

Social Mobility - Education

be one of the main barriers which stop people moving out of poverty. Yet studies indicate that poorer children are still failing to achieve their educational potential. How should these continuing inequalities be addressed? Policies that focus on early years, greater ‘school readiness’ and support for parents are clearly important but research also points to the multiple structural problems tha...

Essays on Intergenerational Income Mobility, Geographical Mobility, and Education

In Paper [I] we analyze the implications of social identity and self -categorization for optimal redistributive income taxation. A two-type model is supplemented by an assumption that individuals select themselves into social categories, in which norms are formed and education effort choices partly depend on these norms. The results show, among other things, that externality correction by a wel...