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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2008
preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs about the world, such as trust. This paper provides evidence on the three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264365
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Early-life Circumstances Predict Measures of Trust among Adults: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016
Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555535
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Don't Stop Believin’ – Heterogeneous Updating of Intergenerational Mobility Perceptions Across Income Groups
Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023
This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on low intergenerational mobility. Building on insights from behavioral economics, we expect that incentives to update perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345626
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Vertical Transmission of Overweight: Evidence from English Adoptees
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Le Grand, Julian - 2015
We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non-adopted, and their families. Our results suggest strong evidence of an intergenerational association of overweight among adoptees, indicating transmission through cultural factors....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531830
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Complementarities, Coordination, and Culture
Ellis, Christopher J.; Thompson, Jon C.; Wu, Jiabin - 2016
We develop a new model of the intergenerational transmission of culture based on the labor market characteristics of different cultural types. Following Borjas (1994,1995) we assume that cultural heterogeneity increases labor productivity due to skill complementarities, however following Jackson...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522449
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How deep are the roots of economic development?
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2012
The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283630
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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the perceived and the actual fairness of the income generation process affects this association. Building on a simple model of individual labor-market participation under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274890
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Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants
Isphording, Ingo E.; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2015
influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388259
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Should Immigrants Culturally Assimilate or Preserve Their Own Culture? Individual Beliefs and the Longevity of National Identity
Grajzl, Peter; Eastwood, Jonathan; Dimitrova-Grajzl, … - 2017
We develop and empirically test a theory concerning individual beliefs about whether immigrants should culturally … immigrant threat and, thus, affects individuals’ beliefs about the need for immigrants’ cultural assimilation. Empirical … national identity, first, exhibits a robustly negative effect on the strength of individual preferences in favor of immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657191
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Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2017
Correlations between parent and child earnings reflect intergenerational mobility and, more broadly, correlations between siblings’ earnings reflect shared community and family background. These earnings relationships capture important aspects of relations in socio-economic status more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657194