This study measures the persistence in income and education over three generations in Switzerland. I use administrative … data covering the universe of labor income since 1982 and family linkages over three generations. Most studies rely on … underestimates persistence in education. The intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) is around 0.22 between two and 0.05 between …

immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of …

childhood significantly decreases the level of income in adulthood and increases the average probability of being poor. Moreover …

bilingualism for generation 2.0, foreign-born parents investing more in children's education, and access to highly skilled … immigrant assimilation would suggest that children with one native-born and one foreign-born parent (generation 2.5) should fare … better than those whose parents are both foreign-born (generation 2.0) Generation 2.5 individuals should have greater access …

unique data set that combines panel data from a birth cohort with earnings data from a large nationwide income survey and … attainment. Social capital of the neighborhood and cultural capital of the parents account for an additional 6% of the … intergeneration income persistence. From these two additional mechanisms, social capital appears to play a stronger role than the …