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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
Adermon, Adrian - 2019
parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871027
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The causal effect of parents' schooling on children's schooling: A comparison of estimation methods
Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2010
We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent's schooling on child's schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274841
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The Decline of Routine Tasks, Education Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility
Bennett, Patrick; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … inequality in the next generation. Low-ability and low-SES students are most responsive to task-biased demand changes and, as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358817
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The impact of an unexpected wage cut on corruption: Evidence from a "Xeroxed" exam
Borcan, Oana; Lindahl, Mikael; Mitrut, Andreea - 2012
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to an income loss. We exploit an unexpected 25% wage cut incurred …
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