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Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters and Marital Sorting : New Evidence from Imperial China

Keller, Wolfgang; Shiue, Carol H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the role of marriage for women's intergenerational mobility during the Ming-Qing (1368-1911) period. Using status information based on the timing of marriage from family histories in Central China, already in the early 1500s it is the case that daughters from rich families attain higher...

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Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters

Rothstein, Jesse - 2012

Recent proposals would strengthen the dependence of teacher pay and retention on performance, in order to attract those who will be effective teachers and repel those who will not. I model the teacher labor market, incorporating dynamic self-selection, noisy performance measurement, and Bayesian...

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New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

Engel, Mimi - 2011

Recent evidence on the large variance in teacher effectiveness has spurred renewed interest in teacher labor market policies. A substantial body of prior research documents that more highly qualified teachers tend to work in more advantaged schools, although this literature cannot determine the...

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International College Students' Impact on the US Skilled Labor Supply

Beine, Michel; Peri, Giovanni; Raux, Morgan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

US universities have attracted hundreds of thousands of international students each year for the last decade. Some of … quasi-random variation in the tuition charged to international students by public US universities in the year that they … local labor supply by about 0.23 employees for master's students and about 0.11 for bachelor's students. These averages …

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Occupational Choice and the Intergenerational Mobility of Welfare

Boar, Corina; Lashkari, Danial - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Based on responses in the General Social Survey, we construct an index that captures non-monetary qualities of occupations, such as respect, learning, and work hazards, relevant to the well-being of workers. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data,...

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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice

Chiappori, Pierré-Andre - 2015

We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...

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Labor Supply and Occupational Choice

Erosa, Andrés; Fuster, Luisa; Kambourov, Gueorgui; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We document a robust negative relationship between mean annual hours in an occupation and the dispersion of annual hours within that occupation. We study a unified model of occupational choice and labor supply that features heterogeneity across occupations in the return to working additional...

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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility, Inequality, and Growth

Owen, Ann L. - 1997

We examine a model in which per capita income, inequality, intergenerational mobility, and returns to education are all determined endogenously. Individuals earn wages depending on their ability, which is a random variable. They purchase an education with transfers received from their parents,...

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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa

Alesina, Alberto - 2019

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence, using census data from 26 countries. First, we map and characterize the geography of IM. There is substantial variation both across and within countries with differences in literacy of the old...

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The Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants

Borjas, George J. - 1992

This paper analyzes the intergenerational mobility of immigrants. Using the 1940-1970 Censuses, the study reveals an important link between the earnings of immigrants and the earnings of their American-born children. Although there is some regression towards the mean, the earnings of...

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