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The Intergenerational Transmission of Housing Wealth

Daysal, N. Meltem; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Wasser, David N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Rising wealth inequality has spurred an increased interest in understanding how and why wealth is correlated across generations. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in housing wealth driven by home price changes in different areas to isolate the causal impact of parental housing wealth...

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Maximum Impact Intergenerational Associations

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper presents a new approach to measuring the intergenerational transmission of well-being and a novel perspective on which measures and what age ranges to use to estimate intergenerational social mobility. We select the measures and the age ranges that best predict important human capital...

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Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Black, Sandra E. - 2010

Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics, the literature has...

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Theoretical Models of Inequality Transmission across Multiple Generations

Solon, Gary - 2013

Existing theoretical models of intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status have strong implications for the association of outcomes across multiple generations of a family. These models, however, are highly stylized and do not encompass many plausible avenues for transmission across...

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Persistent Effects of Social Program Participation on the Third Generation

Dahl, Gordon B.; Gielen, Anne C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Can participation in safety net programs have long-lasting negative effects across multiple generations? Prior work shows a 1993 Dutch disability insurance reform which tightened requirements and lowered benefits for participants resulted in better outcomes for their children. We study the third...

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Comparing the Effects of Policies for the Labor Market Integration of Refugees

Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark during the last three decades. We first review the studies that use a credible … countries. We then describe the dynamics of labor market outcomes of several cohorts of refugees in Denmark. To our knowledge …, Denmark is the only country where the number and design of policy changes and the longitudinal individual data availability …

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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size

Bagger, Jesper - 2013

We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...

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The Boss is Watching : How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers

Cavounidis, Costas - 2019

African Americans face shorter employment durations than apparently similar whites. We hypothesize that employers discriminate in either acquiring or acting on ability-relevant information. We construct a model in which firms may "monitor" workers. Monitoring black but not white workers is...

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Rationalizing Rational Expectations? Tests and Deviations

D'Haultfoeuille, Xavier - 2018

In this paper, we build a new test of rational expectations based on the marginal distributions of realizations and subjective beliefs. This test is widely applicable, including in the common situation where realizations and beliefs are observed in two different datasets that cannot be matched....

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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings

Cunha, Flavio - 2005

This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and components that are unforecastable. About 60% of variability in returns to schooling is...

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