The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … occupation-specific skills, as a precursor we also investigate occupational mobility and observe convergence toward the … appreciable direct impact on earnings, and to mediate the return to pre-immigration education but not labour market experience. …

contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …, the effects of education and occupation on permanent work incapacity are generally insignificant. …

Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use … years of schooling. We also estimate bounds on the effect of education on arranged marriage when exclusion restrictions are … violated locally (the lower bound is six to seven percentage points). The impact of education is strong for women, but …

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … mother’s or father’s education raises children’s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …

basis of a rich set of variables including education, occupation and job characteristics and we discuss changes in the …This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the …

in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …

maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to … intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother’s education and less important for father …’s income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between post-birth environment and pre-birth factors. …