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Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility
Lee, Chul-In - 2006
Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results, partly because of large sampling errors. By making more efficient use of the available information in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the...
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"And Yet It Moves" : Intergenerational Mobility in Italy
Acciari, Paolo - 2019
We link tax returns across two generations to provide the first estimate of intergenerational mobility in Italy based … on administrative income data. Italy emerges as less immobile than previously depicted by studies using proxies for …. Provinces in Northern Italy, the richest area of the country, display levels three times as large as those in the South. This …
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The Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 1992
This paper analyzes the intergenerational mobility of immigrants. Using the 1940-1970 Censuses, the study reveals an important link between the earnings of immigrants and the earnings of their American-born children. Although there is some regression towards the mean, the earnings of...
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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility
Borjas, George J. - 1991
This paper analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. I assume that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic...
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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa
Alesina, Alberto - 2019
We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence, using census data from 26 countries. First, we map and characterize the geography of IM. There is substantial variation both across and within countries with differences in literacy of the old...
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Intergenerational Mobility
Cholli, Neil A.; Durlauf, Steven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This essay reviews the theory and empirics of intergenerational mobility. Our review draws on models and empirical analyses of classic and more recent work from both economics and sociology. We summarize models and the surrounding empirical evidence of two key sets of mechanisms: family factors...
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Borrowing Constraints, College Aid, and Intergenerational Mobility
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2004
The current level and form of subsidization of college education is often rationalized by appeal to capital constraints on individuals. Because borrowing against human capital is difficult, capital constraints can lead to nonoptimal outcomes unless government intervenes. We develop a simple...
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Intergenerational Mobility and Support for Redistribution
Alesina, Alberto - 2017
affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S.. Americans are more optimistic than …
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Slavery and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2002
How much do sins visited upon one generation harm that generation's future sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters? I study this question by comparing outcomes for former slaves and their children and grandchildren to outcomes for free blacks (pre-1865), and their children and...
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Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940 : The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents
Olivetti, Claudia - 2016
This paper estimates intergenerational elasticities across three generations in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We extend the methodology in Olivetti and Paserman (2015) to explore the role of maternal and paternal grandfathers for the transmission of economic status...
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