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Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?
Fagereng, Andreas - 2018
Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919007
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Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field?
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2021
Many developed countries currently consider a move towards a universal child care program. The challenge in assessing the case for universal child care programs is that the evidence base is scarce. We analyze the staged expansion of subsidized, universally accessible child care in Norway. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315831
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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2021
In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316148
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Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field?
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - CESifo - 2012
Many developed countries currently consider a move towards a universal child care program. The challenge in assessing the case for universal child care programs is that the evidence base is scarce. We analyze the staged expansion of subsidized, universally accessible child care in Norway. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595386
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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - CESifo - 2010
In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671734