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Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission

Bingley, Paul - 2017

Correlations between parent and child earnings reflect intergenerational mobility and, more broadly, correlations between siblings' earnings reflect shared community and family background. These earnings relationships capture important aspects of relations in socioeconomic status more generally....

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Worldviews and Intergenerational Altruism : A Comparison of Turkish People Living in Turkey and Germany

Akkemik, K. Ali - 2017

In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of cultural differences on intergenerational altruism in Turkish people living in Turkey and in Germany, using the anthropological concept of worldview. Data were gathered from four surveys: nationwide surveys in Turkey and Germany, an online...

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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Bauer, Philipp - 2009

children of better educated parents …We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first …

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Intergenerational Risk-Sharing Through Funded Pensions and Public Debt

Chen, Damiaan - 2014

We explore the benefits of intergenerational risk-sharing through both private funded pensions and via the public debt. We use a multi-period overlapping generations model with a PAYG pension pillar, a funded pension pillar and a government. Shocks are smoothed via the public debt and variations...

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Self-Enforcing Intergenerational Social Contract as a Source of Pareto Improvement and Pollution Mitigation

Dao, Thang Nguyen - 2016

income in pollution mitigation in exchange for a transfer to their old-age capital income paid by the next generation. We … minimum level of income and we characterize the set of Pareto-improving mitigation-transfer combinations. Nash bargaining … yields unique solutions for the mitigation share and transfer rate respectively which increase in income. We prove that Nash …

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Evaluating Intergenerational Persistence of Economic Preferences : A Large Scale Experiment with Families in Bangladesh

Chowdhury, Shyamal - 2018

fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …

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The Intergenerational Welfare State

Andersen, Torben M. - 2013

The welfare state is not merely a stand-in for missing markets; it can do a whole lot more. When generations overlap and the young must borrow to make educational investments, a dynamically-efficient welfare state, by taxing the middle-aged and offering a compensatory old-age pension, can...

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Economic Analysis, Sustainability and Environmental Commons

Musu, Ignazio - 2021

When confronted with market weaknesses and failures determining sustainability problems for environmental common-pool resources, economic analysis has proposed government intervention as the only alternative available. Elinor Ostrom showed that this dichotomy between market and government is not...

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The Intergenerational Transfer of the Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation

Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; … - 2021

Despite well-documented convergence during the later years of the 20th century, labor force attachment remains markedly higher for men than for women. The current paper employs rich longitudinal registry data to investigate the intergenerational transfer of the gender gap in labor force...

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The Trade-Off between Intra- and Intergenerational Equity in Climate Policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Naevdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - 2021

This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational equity, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which...

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