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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills : An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes
Hanushek, Eric A.; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021
connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322018
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He's a Chip Off the Old Block - The Persistence of Occupational Choices Across Generations
Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - 2013
Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects … children who grew up with their biological fathers and those who did not. The results suggest that nurture-related effects … explain a significant fraction of the observed correlation of fathers' and children's occupational choices. We discuss policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328838
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The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zumbuehl, Maria - 2017
In this paper we follow the students that took the PISA 2012 test in Switzerland and analyze their transition into and progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students with a migration background. One year after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794149
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Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences: A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815807
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Are risk aversion and impatience related to cognitive ability?
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time horizon, for a representative sample of roughly 1,000 German adults. A measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264614
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2008
parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264365
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Labor Market Sorting in Germany
Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2016
This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555508
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Redistribution or education?: the political economy of the social race
Bernasconi, Michele; Profeta, Paola - 2007
In an overlapping generations model with two social classes, rich and poor, parents of the different social classes vote on two issues: redistributive policies for them and education investments for their kids. Public education is the engine for growth through its effect on human capital; but it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264081
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Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline
Edin, Per-Anders; Evans, Tiernan; Graetz, Georg; … - 2019
What are the earnings and employment losses that workers suffer when demand for their occupations declines? To answer this question we combine forecasts on occupational employment changes, which allow us to identify unanticipated declines; administrative data on the population of Swedish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052826
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Socio-Economic Gaps in University Enrollment: The Role of Perceived Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns
Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher - 2017
To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students’ beliefs about the benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that perceived non-pecuniary benefits explain a large share of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777621