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Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020
We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet … personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270056
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The Education-Health Gradient: Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Gørtz, Mette; Gensowski, Miriam - 2023
-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377203
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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293120
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Opportunity and Inequality across Generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022
We analyze how intergenerational mobility and inequality would change relative to the status quo if dynasties had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177714
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676292
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Like Mother, like Child? The Rise of Women's Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States
Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023
We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377055
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Like (Grand)Parent, like Child? Multigenerational Mobility across the EU
Colagrossi, Marco; d'Hombres, Beatrice; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2019
This study shows that the intergenerational transmission of inequality in most of the 28 EU countries is higher than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006003
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Ethnic Capital and Class Reproduction: Comparing the Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Children's Educational Attainment across Ethno-Religious Groups in Israel
Miaari, Sami H.; Khattab, Nabil; Kraus, Vered; Yonay, … - 2021
This article investigates the relationships between ethnicity, class, and prospects of educational success. For this purpose, we compared the effects of family socio-economic characteristics on children's educational attainment in four ethno-religious groups in Israel (Muslim, Christian, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497954
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Parental Assortative Mating and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597446
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The college type: Personality and educational inequality
Lundberg, Shelly - 2013
I examine the effects of cognitive ability and personality traits on college graduation in a recent cohort of young … background groups in the personality traits that predict successful completion of college, particularly for men. The implications … concerning educational inequality should include, not just the possibilities for remediating the skill levels of poor children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293138