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educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children’s secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children’s enrollment in upper secondary …
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We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … associated with higher educational outcomes for immigrant children, possibly through a quantity-quality trade-off. Third, we show …
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transmits to children and grandchildren. Our findings indicate that third generation males (females) tend to have higher mental …
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This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study — whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...
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first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation …
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This paper assesses educational attainment of immigrant children, in particular evaluating whether naturalised parents … invest more in their children's human capital than non-naturalised parents. Findings of the literature indicate that … capital increase with the duration of residence, naturalised parents may have more incentives to invest in the educational …
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Identity can be an important driving force for educational performance. Immigrants and their children face the … challenge of identifying with their host country’s culture. This paper examines whether young immigrants and their children who …
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Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by … analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … labour income mobility are larger in Germany than in the US. This indicates that economic growth has been distributed more …
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Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can reproduce the standard result from the literature,...
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effect only translates into labor income via the channel of education. Factor structure models are implemented on an …
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