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The Causal Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling - A Comparison of Estimation Methods
Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2021
We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316139
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317185
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Parent-Child Information Frictions and Human Capital Investment : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Bergman, Peter - 2015
This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … parents was provided detailed information about their child's academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020574
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Human Capital, Social Mobility and the Skill Premium
Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos - 2013
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to highlight the role of human capital accumulation of agents differentiated by skill type in the joint determination of social mobility and the skill premium. We first show that our model captures the empirical co-movement of the skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075985
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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers market R&D. This means that our model rationalizes two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009852
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency
de Haan, Monique - 2018
There is a strong intergenerational correlation in welfare participation, but this does not imply that parental welfare receipt induces child receipt. While there are a few quasi-experimental studies that provide estimates of the causal effect of parental welfare participation for children from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912430
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999796
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The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and Through Upper-Secondary Education
Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018
In this paper we follow the students that took the PISA 2012 test in Switzerland and analyze their transition into and progress in upper-secondary education. We observe a substantive difference in the rate of progress between natives and students with a migration background. One year after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927186
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Socio-Economic Gaps in University Enrollment : The Role of Perceived Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns
Boneva, Teodora - 2018
To understand the socio-economic enrollment gap in university attendance, we elicit students' beliefs about the benefits of university education in a sample of 2,540 secondary school students. Our choice model estimates reveal that perceived non-pecuniary benefits explain a large share of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929543
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Transfers within a Three Generations Family : When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315590