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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan Among Sons and Daughters : Levels and Trends

Lefranc, Arnaud - 2012

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy : Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

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Family Background and Income During the Rise of the Welfare State : Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968

Bjorklund, Anders - 2007

The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born 1932-1968. Our main finding is that the share of the...

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Marital Patterns and Income Inequality

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2018

We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage market, i.e. who remains single and who marries whom....

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Intergenerational Earnings Persistence and Economic Inequality in the Long-Run : Evidence from French Cohorts, 1931-1975

Lefranc, Arnaud - 2018

This paper analyzes long-term trends in intergenerational earnings persistence in France for male cohorts born between 1931 and 1975. This time period has witnessed important changes in the French labor market and educational system, in particular an important compression of earnings...

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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States

Bjorklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jantti, Markus; … - 2021

The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...

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What More than Parental Income? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents

Bjorklund, Anders; Lindahl, Lena; Lindquist, Matthew J. - 2021

Sibling correlations are used as overall measures of the impact of family background and community influences on individual outcomes. While most correlation studies show that siblings are quite similar in terms of future achievement, we lack specific knowledge of what it is about family...

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Human Capital Investments in Children : A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries

Osterbacka, Eva - 2010

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a...

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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit

Gonzalez, Libertad - 2011

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...

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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy : Does Rationing Play a Role?

Brilli, Ylenia - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in conjunction with data on public childcare availability. Public childcare … account rationing in public childcare access and the functioning of the childcare market. Our estimates indicate that …

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