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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US
Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; von Berlepsch, Viola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to this day? Does the national origin of migrants matter for long-term development? This paper explores whether the distinct...
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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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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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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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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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Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities
Alesina, Alberto F; La Ferrara, Eliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
The poor favour redistribution and the rich oppose it, but that is not all. Social mobility may make some of today’s poor into tomorrow’s rich and since redistributive policies do not change often, individual preferences for redistribution should depend on the extent and the nature of social...
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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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The Settlement of the United States, 1800 to 2000: The Long Transition towards Gibrat's Law
Desmet, Klaus; Rappaport, Jordan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies the long run development of U.S. counties and metro areas from 1800 to 2000. In earlier periods smaller counties converge whereas larger counties diverge. Over time, due to changes in the age composition of locations and net congestion, convergence dissipates and divergence...
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Personal Pensions with Risk sharing: Affordable, Adequate and Stable Private Pensions in Europe
Bovenberg, A Lans; Nijman, Theo E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Private pension provision faces the challenging task of providing stable income streams during retirement. The challenge has increased markedly in the last decades due to volatile financial markets, falling interest rates and the withdrawal of employers and external insurers as risk bearers of...
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