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He's a Chip Off the Old Block - The Persistence of Occupational Choices Across Generations

Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - 2021

The purpose of this paper is to assess intergenerational occupational mobility in Germany. Using data from the Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects related to parental advice and influence (nurture) from...

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Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection : An Empirical Analysis

Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2010

A growing theoretical literature on the effect of politicians' salaries on the average level of skills of political candidates yields ambiguous predictions. In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on the level of education of parliamentary candidates. We take advantage of an...

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The Quantity and Quality of Teachers : A Dynamic Trade-Off

Gilpin, Gregory; Kaganovič, Michail I. - 2021

We study the dynamics of the quantity and quality of teachers in the framework of dynamic general equilibrium OLG model. The quantity and quality are jointly set by a government agency wishing to maximize the quality of basic education per student while being bound by teachers' collective...

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Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice

Anelli, Massimo - 2017

-born peers affect the likelihood American college students graduate with a STEM major. Using administrative student records from … peers reduces the likelihood native-born students graduate with STEM majors by 3 percentage points–equivalent to 3.7 native … students displaced for 9 additional foreign students in an average course. STEM displacement is offset by an increased …

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Gender of Siblings and Choice of College Major

Anelli, Massimo - 2014

students graduated from high school between 1985 and 2005 to identify siblings. We follow the academic career of these …

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Income Taxation, Tuition Subsidies, and Choice of Occupation : Implications for Production Efficiency

Bjertnæs, Geir H. - 2006

The desirability for production efficiency is re-examined in this study, where agents choose occupation based on lifetime income net of tuition costs. Efficient revenue raising implies that the government should trade off efficiency in production for efficiency in intertemporal consumption, as...

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Spatial and Social Mobility

Borck, Rainald - 2016

This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial equilibrium model of two regions with location preferences where each region consists of an urban area which is home to workplaces and residences and an exclusively residential...

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Redistribution or Education? The Political Economy of the Social Race

Bernasconi, Michele; Profeta, Paola - 2021

In an overlapping generations model with two social classes, rich and poor, parents of the different social classes vote on two issues: redistributive policies for them and education investment for their children. Public education is the engine for growth through its effect on human capital; but...

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The Potential Output Gains from Using Optimal Teacher Incentives : An Illustrative Calibration of a Hidden Action Model

Mehta, Nirav - 2018

This paper examines the potential output gains from the implementation of optimal teacher incentive pay schemes, by calibrating the Hölmstrom and Milgrom (1987) hidden action model using data from Muralidharan and Sundararaman (2011), a teacher incentive pay experiment implemented in Andhra...

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Collective Choice and Individual Action : Education Policy and Social Mobility in England

Jennings, Colin C. - 2015

the allocation of students to schools by catchment area is also instrumentally appealing to middle-class families …

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