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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471875
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Does family background affect earnings through education? : a generalised approach to mediation analysis
Mendolia, Silvia; Siminski, Peter - 2016
We seek to quantify the role of education as a mechanism through which family background affects earnings. To this end … through the pathway of education and through other mechanisms. The results suggest that educational attainment explains 24 …%-39% of the overall family background effect on earnings in Australia. The mediating role of education seems to be larger for …
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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
nurture interpretation. Once we take account of genes, we find that only the education of mothers matters: the association … between mother's education and child test scores is significant and large, whereas the association between father's education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612662
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Opportunity and inequality across generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879620
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Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: moving out to move on?
Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick - 2020
Social mobility - the extent to which social and economic position in adulthood is facilitated or constrained by family origins - has taken an increasingly prominent role in public and policy discourse. Recent studies have documented that not only who your parents are, but also where you grow...
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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 use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002423
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Are estimates of intergenerational mobility biased by non-response? : evidence from the Netherlands
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Hirsch, Stefa - 2018
Intergenerational mobility is often studied using survey data. In such settings, selective unit or item non-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows us to examine whether selective responses bias the estimated relationship between parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869114
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Elite universities and the intergenerational transmission of human and social capital
Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Neilson, Christopher; … - 2024
Do elite colleges help talented students join the social elite, or help incumbent elites retain their positions? We combine intergenerationally-linked data from Chile with a regression discontinuity design to show that, looking across generations, elite colleges do both. Lower-status individuals...
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Schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastian - 2024
This paper presents new evidence on schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries. By combining survey information with national census data, we have constructed a novel dataset that includes 50,000 triads of grandparents, parents, and children born between 1890 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552644
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021
The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698648