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about parents and children. We estimate the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment and earning capacity … with critical variations due to labour market conditions. At the time of transition around 1990 children's educational …
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We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...
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government physicians - can account for developmental gaps between the children of college educated parents and those of less … also focus on improving the health of disadvantaged children …
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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...
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and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link individual measures of lifetime earnings … results suggest a small or no causal effect of parental education on children's educational attainment …
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This paper studies the role of ethnicity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Relying on heteroskedasticity to identify parameters in the presence of endogenous regressors, I revisit Borjas ethnic capital hypothesis. I find evidence that the OLS estimates of the...
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the role of parental influences on occupational choice by testing whether the children of teachers are disproportionately …. Overall, children whose mothers are teachers are 9 percentage points (or more than two times) more likely to enter teaching … than the children of non-teacher mothers.This rate of occupational transmission is significantly larger than for several …
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correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in … distribution. Nevertheless, a considerable portion of children's education still depends on family background. Children from poor …
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Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation … use rich panel data to link parents to children's long-run outcomes. The key to our regression discontinuity design is … that the reform applied to younger cohorts, while older cohorts were exempted from the new rules.We find that children of …
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This study shows that the intergenerational transmission of inequality in most of the 28 EU countries is higher than what a parent-to-child paradigm would suggest. While a strand of the literature claims that this is due to a direct grandparental effect, economic historian Gregory Clark...
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