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The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences : Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy
Anderson, Soren T. - 2013
We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their adult children, using data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459126
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The Parental Bequest to Children
Leibowitz, Arleen - 1975
relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479045
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The Marginal Propensity to Spend on Adult Children
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2003
discounted values of these responses to permanent income. Our estimates imply that parents pass on between 2 and 3 cents out of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468887
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Do Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the US, 1910-2013
Ferrie, Joseph - 2016
Studies of US intergenerational mobility focus almost exclusively on the transmission of (dis)advantage from parents to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456045
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Games Parents and Adolescents Play : Risky Behaviors, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers
Hao, Lingxin - 2005
This paper examines reputation formation in intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in a repeated two-stage game in which adolescents decide whether to give a teen birth or drop out of high school, and given adolescent decisions, the parent decides whether to house and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466799
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Games Daughters and Parents Play : Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers
Hao, Lingxin - 2000
teenager and the willingness of parents to continue to house and support their daughters given their decisions. Drawing on the … work of Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982) on reputation in repeated games, we show that parents have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471097
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Dynastic Precautionary Savings
Boar, Corina - 2020
This paper provides evidence that parents accumulate savings to insure their children against income risk. I refer to … model of altruistically linked overlapping generations, in which parents and children interact strategically, that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479159
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Does Parental Quality Matter? Evidence on the Transmission of Human Capital Using Variation in Parental Influence from Death, Divorce, and Family Size
Gould, Eric D. - 2019
This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479451
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Intergenerational Health Mobility : Magnitudes and Importance of Schools and Place
Fletcher, Jason - 2019
average relative mobility in this sample is approximately 0.17 and expected health rank for children of parents at the 25th …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480385
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills : An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696359