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Intergenerational wealth mobility in rural Bangladesh
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz - 2011
Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth … mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational … transition matrices show substantial persistence in wealth even when we correct for measurement errors in parental wealth. We do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315486
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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808334
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Multidimensional measurement of richness : theory and an application to Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010
considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth. -- Affluence ; multidimensional measurement ; mobility ; elites …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944260
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The inheritance of educational inequality among young people in developing countries
Pastore, Francesco; Roccisano, Federica - 2015
This letter provides new evidence on the extent of the inheritance of educational inequality in the eight developing countries (Azerbaijan, China, Egypt, Iran, Kosovo, Mongolia, Nepal, Syria) where the ILO carried out the first wave of School-to-Work Transition survey. We observe different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528582
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Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States
Hufe, Paul; Kobus, Martyna; Peichl, Andreas; Schüle, Paul - 2022
measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …-egalitarian distribution of income until 2000, and (ii) a less opportunity-egalitarian distribution of wealth after the financial crisis in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169954
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Income inequality, equality of opportunity, and intergenerational mobility
Corak, Miles - 2013
employers and wealth will imply a much higher rate of transmission of economic advantage at the very top. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777000
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Egalitarianism under pressure : toward lower economic mobility in the knowledge economy?
Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2017
Based on complete population data, with the exact same definitions of family class background and economic outcomes for a large number of birth cohorts, we examine post‐war trends in intergenerational economic mobility in Norway. Despite only mild fluctuations in standard rank‐based summary...
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Trends in assortative mating and offspring outcomes
Bratsberg, Bernt; Markussen, Simen; Raaum, Oddbjørn; … - 2018
Fertility patterns and assortative mating help shape the level and the distribution of offspring outcomes. Increased assortative mating among the less educated has been reported across Western nations, suggesting that inequality in parental resources may be on the rise. In times of rising...
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The correlation of wealth between parents and children in Australia
Siminski, Peter; Yu, Sin Hung - 2021
We present the first estimates of intergenerational wealth correlation for Australia, using HILDA. The rank correlation … varies greatly by child age when wealth is observed, from 0.1 before age 30, to 0.5 after age 40. Most children in our ….306. Wealth correlations are difficult to interpret and not well grounded in theory. We therefore also implement Boserup et al …
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The economic impact of heritable physical traits : hot parents, rich kid?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Zhang, Anwen - 2024
Since the mapping of the human genome in 2004, biologists have demonstrated genetic links to the expression of several income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces intergenerational economic effects, this study uses one trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which...
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