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

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

Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants' location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...

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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity

Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023

The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated...

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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

market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 … families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh we find a large degree of intergenerational persistence of economic …-economic background data. We discuss possible transmission channels for these relationships within families and find indications that …

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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

intergenerational transmission of economic preferences within families. Our paper is the first to run incentivized experiments with … fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 …

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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China

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

Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not...

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