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The origins of intergenerational associations in crime: Lessons from Swedish adoption data
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew J. - In: Labour Economics 20 (2013) C, pp. 68-81
We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent–son associations in crime. For adopted …-birth factors for generating parent–son associations in crime. When considering the extensive margin, we find that pre-birth and …
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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Crime: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted …-birth factors for generating parent-son associations in crime. We find that pre-birth and post-birth factors are both important …
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The Importance of Family Background and Neighborhood Effects as Determinants of Crime
Hederos Eriksson, Karin; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
one-third and one-half of the variation in criminal convictions, depending on crime type and gender. Neighborhood … structure contribute more to sibling similarities in crime than parental income and education or neighborhood characteristics …. The lions’ share of the sibling crime correlations, however, are unexplained by these factors. Finally, sibling spacing …
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Adolescent drug use and the deterrent effect of school-imposed penalties
Waddell, G.R. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 961-969
Estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. Reverse causality is also a potential challenge to retrieving estimates of the causal relationship, as the...
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Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality
den Berg, Gerard J van; Vikström, Johan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower...
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Compliance with the Institutional Wage in Dualistic Models
Martins, Ana Paula - In: Journal of Economics and Econometrics 54 (2011) 2, pp. 93-126
This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
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Alcohol availability and crime: Lessons from liberalized weekend sales restrictions
Grönqvist, Hans; Niknami, Susan - In: Journal of Urban Economics 81 (2014) C, pp. 77-84
availability raised both alcohol use and crime. …
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School tracking and intergenerational social mobility : postponing school tracking can increase social mobility without significant adverse effects on educational achievement
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014
The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...
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Determinants and perceptions of social mobility in Poland, 1992 - 2008
Sokołowska, Katarzyna - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 89-102
The purpose of this article is to analyse the factors affecting social mobility in Poland, based on results obtained from the estimation of logit models for the years 1992 - 2008 as well as from interviews asking about the necessary conditions to achieve success in life. Data used in this work...
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Intergenerational income persistence : measures of intergenerational persistence can be indicative of equality of opportunity, but the relationship is not clear cut
Blanden, Jo - 2015
A strong association between incomes across generations - with children from poor families likely to be poor as adults - is frequently considered an indicator of insufficient equality of opportunity. Studies of such "intergenerational persistence," or lack of intergenerational mobility, are...
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