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Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics, the literature has...
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We link administrative data on tax returns across two generations of Italians to study the degree of intergenerational mobility. We estimate that a child with parental income below the median is expected to belong to the 44th percentile of its own income distribution as an adult, and the...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between parents' time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by their children. Using data from the Multinational Time Use Study for the UK, we find positive intergenerational correlations in housework for both parents, indicating that the...
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Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their...
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This paper examines ethnic disparities in intergenerational economic mobility for the children of second-generation "migrants." Using rich register data for adult children aged 20 to 30, we provide empirical evidence on the economic assimilation outcomes of the descendants of immigrants who...
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types of outcomes, such as (continuous) earnings or (discrete and ordinal) education levels, and captures dynastic … country. Results indicate that mobility in terms of education and potential earnings was markedly at the advantage of women …. The bulk of the population came out of illiteracy, possibly due to large-scale education reforms, but the relative …
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-term outcomes such as education, teenage pregnancy, occupation, mortality, and victimization …
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results suggest a small or no causal effect of parental education on children's educational attainment …
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of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …
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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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