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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility

Adermon, Adrian - 2019

We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … extended family relative to the parents increases …

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Cross-Dynastic Intergenerational Altruism

Nesje, Frikk - 2022

I study whether saving behavior reveals socially relevant intertemporal preferences. To this end, I decompose the present generation’s preference for the next into its dynastic and cross-dynastic components in a model of saving. If people are concerned about the next generation as such, then...

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The Decline of Routine Tasks, Education Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility

Bennett, Patrick; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting differential exposure to the national decline in routine-task intensity across local labor markets, we show that the secular decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in...

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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...

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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality

G.C. Britto, Diogo; Fonseca, Alexandre de Andrade; … - 2022

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...

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Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations : Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes

Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin; Ye, Han - 2022

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members’ labor supply and child outcomes by …

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Wage Effects of Employer-Mediated Transfers

Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021

We explore whether the way in which tax credits are disbursed affects the gross wage of workers. We exploit an unusual reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a staggered fashion, from 2003 to 2010. Using...

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Wealth Taxation and Charitable Giving

Ring, Marius Alexander Kalleberg; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2022

We provide novel evidence on the linkages between capital taxation and charitable giving on three fronts. First, we use quasi-experimental variation in the annual Norwegian wealth tax to study the effect on how much households give. Inconsistent with the notion that households give more in order...

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Behavioral Responses to Inheritance and Gift Taxation : Evidence from Germany

Glogowsky, Ulrich - 2021

The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals’ tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...

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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

The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to … provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique … connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these …

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