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Bitter sugar : slavery and the black family

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020

We empirically assess the effect of historical slavery on the African American family structure. Our hypothesis is that … female single headship among blacks is more likely to emerge in association not with slavery per se, but with slavery in … for migrants. By 1990, the effect of sugar is replaced by that of slavery and the black share, consistent with the spread …

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Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales

Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick; Zhang, Min - 2023

In this paper we use linked Census data to document rates of intergenerational housing mobility across ethnic groups in England and Wales. While home ownership has declined across all ethnic groups, we find substantial differences between them, with Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi households...

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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...

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The labor market returns to "first in family" university graduates

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2022

We examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university degree. For men, we do not find a FiF wage penalty....

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Poverty in Russia : a bird's-eye view of trends and dynamics in the past quarter of century

Abanokova, Kseniya; Dang, Hai-Anh H. - 2021

Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of poverty trends and dynamics for the country over the past quarter of century. We find that poverty...

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Social mobility and political regimes : intergenerational mobility in Hungary,1949-2017

Bukowski, Paweł; Clark, Gregory; Gáspár, Attila; … - 2021

This paper measures social mobility rates in Hungary 1949-2017, for upper class and underclass families, using surnames to measure social status. In these years there were two very different social regimes. The first was the Hungarian People's Republic, 1949-1989, a Communist regime with an...

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Do gender, child, and parent characteristics contribute to intergenerational subjective well-being mobility? : evidence from Russia during 1994-2019

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022

Measuring the intergenerational mobility of welfare provides key inputs for policies, but very few studies examine intergenerational mobility of subjective well-being (SWB), particularly in a poorer, transitional country context. We make new contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from...

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What the mean measures of mobility miss : learning about intergenerational mobility from conditional variance

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, … - 2022 - This version: February 17, 2022

A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to understand the role of family background, but ignores the information contained in conditional variance. Using exceptionally rich data free of coresidency bias, we provide evidence...

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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft

We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This is the first paper, to our knowledge, to provide estimates of sibling...

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Is gender destiny? : gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2021 - This version: March 22, 2021

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated by coresidency. The standard linear model misses...

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