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Choosing the right parents : changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality - between 1980 and the early 1990s

Levine, David I. (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Revised estimates of intergenerational income mobility in the United States

Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920632

Estimating the returns to community college schooling for displaced workers

Jacobsen, Louis (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The growing importance of family and community : an analysis of changes in the sibling correlation in earnings

Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers' earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...

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Maternal employment and overweight children

Anderson, Patricia M. (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Nutrition, Income Instability and Quality of Life: Determinants and Differential Patterns across Members within the Household

Cárdenas, Mauricio; Maro, Vincenzo Di; Meija, Carolina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

Using an approach that complements standard income-based measures with broader measures of well-being this paper … income instability as measures of deprivation and analyzes their relationship with perceived and objective well-being. First … perceived well-being and income instability. …

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Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash

McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - CESifo - 2013

-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock …

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Is Entrepreneurship a Channel of Social Mobility in Latin America?

Castellani, Francesca; Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

income persistence coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that … indicate the direction of such mobility, the estimates of income differentials between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs for …

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The Impact of Public and Private Job Training in Colombia

Medina, Carlos; Núñez, Jairo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

In this working paper, the authors present various matching estimators of the impact on earnings for individuals who attended public and private job training programs in Colombia, namely the National Learning Service (SENA). The authors estimate propensity scores by controlling for the wide...

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Knowledge is Power - A Theory of Information, Income, and Welfare Spending

Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - CESifo - 2011

. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …

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