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Cross-National Estimates of the Intergenerational Mobility in Earnings
Lillard, Dean R. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 51-58
This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of...
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Empirical essays on the long-term outcomes of childhood experiences: Poverty, weather shock and migration
Weldesenbet, Ermias Gebru - 2022
experiences. As children are vulnerable to early life experi- ences, whether they have a good or bad start has long … of longitudinal data following children for a long time. More recently, studies focusing on developing countries are … beginning to emerge with the maturity of some longitudinal datasets tracking children, even if it remains much to discover in …
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Educational Opportunities of Children in Poverty
Schöb, Anke - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 172-179
In this paper, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to investigate whether and how a German youth' s choice of secondary school (Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium) varies with the timing and duration of poverty experienced in childhood. To investigate what role the timing of...
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From birth to graduation: Essays on the economics of education and early interventions
Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2014
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International migration: A destination country and migrant perspective
Jørgensen, Thomas H. - 2015
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