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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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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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The political economy of intergenerational income mobility
Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas; Moretti, Enrico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to measuring this reduced-form parameter, less is known about its underlying structural determinants....
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More Equal but Less Mobile? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the United States
Checchi, Daniele; Ichino, Andrea; Rustichini, Aldo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
A state school system should be expected to reduce income inequality and to make intergenerational mobility easier. It is therefore somewhat surprising to observe that Italy, in comparison to the United States, displays less inequality between occupational incomes, but lower intergenerational...
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Inequality and Mobility
Hassler, John; Mora, Rodríguez; Vicente, José; Zeira, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We use a general equilibrium OLG model to analyse the relation between intergenerational social mobility and wage inequality. We show that the correlation between mobility and inequality depends on which factor caused the change in inequality. The model can thus help discriminate between...
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In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1930
Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper provides a new perspective on intergenerational mobility in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We devise an empirical strategy that allows to calculate intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of both sexes. The key insight of our approach...
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The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration: Causal Evidence from Micro-data
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Holmlund, Helena; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a … percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth … cohorts, throughout the life cycle, and across crime categories. …
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Ethnicity and Spatial Externalities in Crime
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We develop a model where the decision to commit a crime in a neighboring area is a positive function of the percentage … of same-race individuals residing in that area since they can provide crucial information on crime possibilities. The … model then predicts a positive spatial correlation in crime between different contiguous areas; this correlation is higher …
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Insecurity and Welfare
Fafchamps, Marcel; Minten, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Using original survey data, we examine how insecurity affects welfare. Correcting for unobserved heterogeneity and possible endogeneity, we find an effect of insecurity on incomes, school enrolment, health status, and infant mortality. Results are robust to the inclusion of various shocks...
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