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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
Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects … children who grew up with their biological fathers and those who did not. The results suggest that nurture-related effects … explain a significant fraction of the observed correlation of fathers’ and children’s occupational choices. We discuss policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315709
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William - 2017
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965722
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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 possible by linking Korean-born children who were adopted at infancy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919007
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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment -- Evidence for German Sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315571
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920869
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Intergenerational Transmission of Skills During Childhood and Optimal Public Policy
Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2021
that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316071
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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship : Not Just a Matter of Personality
Caliendo, Marco - 2014
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start-up decision and can explain the gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052066
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Behind the Gate Experiment : Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2014
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the United States, we find no strong or lasting effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046581
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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 - 2021
We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316139
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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 - CESifo - 2013
Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects … children who grew up with their biological fathers and those who did not. The results suggest that nurture-related effects … explain a significant fraction of the observed correlation of fathers’ and children’s occupational choices. We discuss policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701085