Unequal opportunities and human capital formation
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Unequal opportunities and human capital formation
This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibriummodel where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relation between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in human capital formation. Using numerical solutions we study how the endogenous variables of the model respond...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Development Economics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0304-3878
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2007.04.001