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the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …
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Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents …'s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation …
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care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker’s rotten kids theorem holds for the … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a "game" inspired by Becker …
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intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and …
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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
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that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …
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We model the correlations of brothers' life-cycle earnings separating for the first time the effect of paternal earnings from additional residual sibling effects. We identify the two effects by analyzing sibling correlations and intergenerational correlations jointly within a unified framework....
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This paper addresses whether children's exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability …-age population rely on disability benefits, we find that the amount of time that children are exposed to their fathers receiving …
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We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...
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are generally non-negligible. They also differ rather widely for the various cohort/income groups. Our stochastic …
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