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Choosing the right parents : changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality - between 1980 and the early 1990s

Levine, David I. (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Revised estimates of intergenerational income mobility in the United States

Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920632

The growing importance of family and community : an analysis of changes in the sibling correlation in earnings

Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers' earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...

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Should we teach old dogs new tricks? : The impact of community college retraining on older displaced workers

Jacobson, Louis S. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

less than those reported for schooling of children. However, our internal rate of return estimates are very sensitive to …

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Estimating the returns to community college schooling for displaced workers

Jacobsen, Louis (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Where We Are Going – Some Brief Pointers

Harmon, Colm - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2011

The estimation of the economic return to education has perhaps been one of the predominant areas of analysis in applied economics for over 50 years. In this short note we consider some of the recent directions taken by the literature, and also some of the blockages faced by both science and...

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Mother's education and birth weight

Chevalier, Arnaud; O'Sullivan, Vincent - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2007

Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the mother pre- and during pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could...

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Sheepskin or Prozac: The Causal Effect of Education on Mental Health

Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2007

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains...

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Mother's education and birth weight

Chevalier, Arnaud; O'Sullivan, Vincent - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113017

Choosing the right parents: changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality between 1980 and the early 1990s

Levine, David I.; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2002

This paper uses the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the General … Social Survey (GSS) to measure the elasticity of family income on men’s adult earnings in 1980 and the early 1990s. The study … finds a large and statistically significant increase in the importance of family income over time when comparing cohorts in …

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