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-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …
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children of urban college educated fathers, but not in rural areas. Theoretical insights help understand the mechanisms …
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persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. Inurban China, and urban and … evidence of pure son preference in rural India.The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents …
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A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to … suggests a strong influence of father's education on conditional variance of children's schooling. We find substantial … measures substantially underestimate the effects of family background on children's educational opportunities, and may give a …
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In this paper we use linked Census data to document rates of intergenerational housing mobility across ethnic groups in England and Wales. While home ownership has declined across all ethnic groups, we find substantial differences between them, with Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi households...
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Home ownership is the largest component of wealth for most households and its intergenerational transmission underpins the production and reproduction of economic inequalities across generations. Yet, little is currently known about ethnic differences in the intergenerational transmission of...
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