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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …

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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters : a large-scale experiment

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020 - This version: July 2, 2020

) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …

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Beyond the average : ethnic capital heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education

Chakrabortya, Tanika; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, … - 2019

correlated unobservables, we find that children of low-educated parents benefit significantly from the presence of high … impact of heterogeneous ethnic capital on educational outcomes of children. Correcting for endogenous location choice and …-educated parental peers of the same ethnicity. High educated parental peers from other ethnicities do not influence children’s learning …

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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China

Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are …

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Intergenerational mobility : an assessment for Latin American countries

Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Yavuz, Hasan Bilgehan; Pastore, … - 2019

This paper aims to study the process of intergenerational income mobility in some Latin American economies (Panama and … have a stagnant economy coupled with high income inequality. Our rich and detailed dataset, the IPUMS survey data bank …

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A broken social elevator? : employment outcomes of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium

Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2020

This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the employment performance of first- and second-generation immigrants in Belgium compared to that of natives. Using detailed quarterly data for the period 2008-2014, we find not only that first-generation immigrants face a...

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Intergenerational occupational mobility in Latin American economies : an empirical approach

Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco; Yavuz, Hasan … - 2020

Identifying the determinants of intergenerational mobility is an important aim in the development literature. In this article, intergenerational transmission is examined for 6 neglected Latin American Economies (Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Puerto Rico). We use a multinomial...

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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...

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