Intergenerational talent transmission, inequality, and social mobility
The paper investigates the effects of intra-family talent transmission when human capital exhibits indivisibilities and parental financing of education involves borrowing constraints. Positive talent correlation reduces social mobility but steady state inequality and macroeconomic history-dependence are not affected.
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2008
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Authors: | Napel, Stefan ; Schneider, Andrea |
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Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 99.2008, 2, p. 405-409
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Elsevier |
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