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attainment and labor market outcomes of both sons and daughters are strongly related to both parents' cognitive and non …
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academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The main result is that it … generates a strong and significant improvement in academic performance, particularly for students who struggled at the baseline … in terms of lifestyle habits. We also provide evidence on the underlying mechanisms: Students who were incentivized to …
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We examine a hitherto unexplored aspect of intergenerational transmission of economic standing, namely culturally determined status markers and their valuation in the marriage market. We take nobility to be such a status marker. We propose a two-trait extension of the optimal sorting model in...
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This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying second generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is significant transmission of trust on the mother's side. The transmission is stronger in Northern Europe. Ancestry from more...
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This paper estimates the effect of trust on internet use by studying the general population as well as second generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is a significant positive effect of trust on internet use. The positive trust effect is not universal to...
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This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely … set of household level factors, the sibling analysis provides no support for a causal effect of parents' welfare benefit … receipt on children's future welfare use. …
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This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational mobility in the top of the income and earnings distribution … the top, more so for income than for earnings. In the extreme top (top 0.1 percent) income transmission is remarkable with … fathers' income are, if anything, negatively associated with these variables. Wealth, on the other hand, has a significantly …
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In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez (2005) apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to estimate education returns of wage earners and the self-employed in Portugal and in Spain. Our examination reveals several problems which relate to the validity and documentation...
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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Twins-based estimates of the return to schooling feature prominently in the labor economics literature. The validity of such estimates hinges critically on the assumption that within-pair variation in schooling is explained by factors which are unrelated to wage earning ability. This paper...
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