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The Role of Family Risk Attitudes in Education and Intergenerational Mobility: An Empirical Analysis
Huebener, Mathias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper analyses the role of family risk attitudes in intergenerational mobility in incomes and education. Based on … with risk averse fathers. They obtain significantly higher levels of education, which would be justified by modest evidence … on higher returns to education. The relationship seems more complex for sons' own risk attitudes. Risk taking sons …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818237
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Who Dares, Wins?: A Sibling Analysis of Tertiary Education Transition in Germany
Keller, Tamás; Neidhöfer, Guido - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
, however, still limited regarding educational transitions later in life, such as into tertiary education. Is parental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267925
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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277156
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A New Look at Intergenerational Mobility in Germany Compared to the US
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can reproduce the standard result from the literature,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249383
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How Important Is the Family?: Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
This paper is the first to analyze intergenerational economic mobility based on sibling correlations in permanent earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows: the importance of family and community background in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868114
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Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling
Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on a set of variables describing the grandparents … variation in the years of education by affecting the household resources available per child. We present evidence for strong and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021617
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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128973
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Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature
Stuhler, Jan Leonard - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
I argue that the empirical strategies for estimation of the intergenerational elasticity of lifetime earnings that are currently employed in the literature might not eliminate bias arising from life-cycle effects. Specifically, I demonstrate that procedures based on the generalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784514
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Is It the Family or the Neighborhood?: Evidence from Sibling and Neighbor Correlations in Youth Education and Health
Bügelmayer, Elisabeth; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
In this paper we present sibling and neighbor correlations in school grades and cognitive skills as well as indicators of physical and mental health for a sample of German adolescents. In a first step, we estimate sibling correlations and find substantial influence of shared family and community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267909
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Are We Architects of Our Own Happiness?: The Importance of Family Background for Well-Being
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Wunder, Christoph - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or wellbeing). We estimate sibling correlations and intergenerational correlations in self-reported life satisfaction, satisfaction with household income, job satisfaction, and satisfaction with health. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267919