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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010

persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter … precision of the correlations themselves. -- Education ; income mobility ; income transmission ; intergenerational transmission …

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The economics of human development and social mobility

Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - In: Annual review of economics 6 (2014), pp. 689-733

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The economics of human development and social mobility

Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

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The economics of human development and social mobility

Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

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Sacrifice, discounting and climate policy : five questions

Karp, Larry S. - 2009

I offer a selective review of discounting and climate policy. Analytic and numerical models show that different assumptions greatly change the degree to which decisions about climate policy depend on the discount rate. I discuss a claim that standard models exaggerate the current generation's...