Arbeitspapier

Income Equality, School Performance and Educational Mobility

Is income equality a precondition for higher school performance and higher educational mobility? Or is the opposite true? We test empirically whether school performance and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment is depending on income equality on the local level. Using Swiss data, we take advantage of an exogenous variation across 2740 local municipalities. Our results point to a beneficial effect of income inequality on school performance for children with middle educated parents. In contrast, children with poorly educated parents as well as children with highly educated parents perform worse in more unequal communities. However, the popular idea that societies with a more equal income distribution inevitably enhance the upward mobility of disadvantaged children cannot be confirmed.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CREMA Working Paper ; No. 2011-03

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Distribution: General
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Thema
inequality
intergenerational transmission
mobility
educational attainment
income distribution
human capital

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bauer, Philipp C.
Schaltegger, Christoph A.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
(wo)
Basel
(wann)
2011

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bauer, Philipp C.
  • Schaltegger, Christoph A.
  • Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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