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Marital sorting, household labor supply, and intergenerational earnings mobility across countries
Raaum, Oddbjørn (contributor) - 2007
, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is … family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561612
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On the family origins of human capital formation: evidence from donor children
Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2021
We introduce a novel strategy to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital, net of genetic skill transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm and egg donation in IVF treatments in Denmark. Because the assignment of donors is not selective,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612662
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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019
We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We … extended family relative to the parents increases. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002423
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Who married, (to) whom, and where? : trends in marriage in the United States, 1850-1940
Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Marco Daniele; Salisbury, Laura - 2020
the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Imputing socioeconomic status of family of origin from first names, we document a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305893
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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany
Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023
We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family … suggest that the strong intergenerational correlation of welfare benefit receipt is determined by family background rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442725
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Like mother, like child? : the rise of women's intergenerational income persistence in Sweden and the United States
Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023
We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280839
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Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and hours of self- employed coupled and single workers by gender and parental status
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020
, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244813
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Sibling spillover in rural China : a story of sisters and daughters
Bansak, Cynthia; Jiang, Xuan; Yang, Guanyi - 2020
We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an increase in the Chinese and Math test scores of elder siblings when their younger sibling starts school. We use the Chinese Law of Compulsory Education as an exogenous variation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201296
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Parents, siblings and schoolmates : the effects of family-school interactions on educational achievement and long-term labor market outcomes
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2017
individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772350
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Marriage and marriage markets
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods, savings, labor supply, leisure, type of relationship,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572290