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Choosing the right parents : changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality - between 1980 and the early 1990s

Levine, David I. (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001697071

Revised estimates of intergenerational income mobility in the United States

Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920632

Estimating the returns to community college schooling for displaced workers

Jacobsen, Louis (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001761397

The growing importance of family and community : an analysis of changes in the sibling correlation in earnings

Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers' earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...

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Should we teach old dogs new tricks? : The impact of community college retraining on older displaced workers

Jacobson, Louis S. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

less than those reported for schooling of children. However, our internal rate of return estimates are very sensitive to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920927

Maternal employment and overweight children

Anderson, Patricia M. (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001697106

Do teachers make better parents? The differential performance of teachers’ children at school

Denny, Kevin - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2005

This paper investigates whether teenagers are educationally advantaged if their parents are educators, using PISA data … for Great Britain and Ireland. It examines whether teachers’ children do better at tests of reading ability. The results … show that children whose fathers teach at third level or whose mothers teach at second level do better and these effects …

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Mother's education and birth weight

Chevalier, Arnaud; O'Sullivan, Vincent - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2007

Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the mother pre- and during pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could...

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Mother's education and birth weight

Chevalier, Arnaud; O'Sullivan, Vincent - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027724

Sheepskin or Prozac: The Causal Effect of Education on Mental Health

Chevalier, Arnaud; Feinstein, Leon - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2007

Mental illness is associated with large costs to individuals and society. Education improves various health outcomes but little work has been done on mental illness. To obtain unbiased estimates of the effect of education on mental health, we rely on a rich longitudinal dataset that contains...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027731