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Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status : Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

Bjorklund, Anders - 2007

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …

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Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Lee, Chul-In - 2006

Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results … Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the recent time-series variation in intergenerational mobility. Our …

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Theoretical Models of Inequality Transmission across Multiple Generations

Solon, Gary - 2013

Existing theoretical models of intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status have strong implications for the association of outcomes across multiple generations of a family. These models, however, are highly stylized and do not encompass many plausible avenues for transmission across...

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The Effect of Family Background on Economic Status : A Longitudinal Analysis of Sibling Correlations

Solon, Gary - 1987

Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Our main conclusion is that family background appears to exert greater influence on economic …

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Effects of Family and Community Background on Men's Economic Status

Corcoran, Mary - 1989

This study uses intergenerational data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the effects of family and … accurate than those of many earlier studies. We find substantial disadvantages in economic status for black men, men from lower-income …

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Quantifying Family, School, and Location Effects in the Presence of Complementarities and Sorting

Agrawal, Mohit - 2018

We extend the control function approach of Altonji and Mansfield (2018) to allow for multiple group levels and complementarities. Our analysis provides a foundation for causal interpretation of multilevel mixed effects models in the presence of sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain...

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The Effects of Advanced Degrees on the Wage Rates, Hours, Earnings and Job Satisfaction of Women and Men

Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to degrees with high average earnings and underestimates...

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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Black, Sandra E. - 2015

markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children …

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