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Migration to the Us and Marital Mobility
Christopoulou, Rebekka - 2013
estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective … migration and marriage dampens down these effects …
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Making it in America : Social Mobility in the Immigrant Population
Borjas, George J. - 2021
The ultimate impact of immigration on the United States obviously depends not only on the economic, social, political, and cultural shifts that take place during the life cycle of the immigrant population, but also on the adjustment process experienced by the immigrant household across...
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The Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 2021
This paper analyzes the intergenerational mobility of immigrants. Using the 1940-1970 Censuses, the study reveals an important link between the earnings of immigrants and the earnings of their American-born children. Although there is some regression towards the mean, the earnings of...
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Consequences of Imbalanced Sex Ratios : Evidence from America'S Second Generation
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2021
the number of men per woman, had a large positive impact on the likelihood of female marriage. More surprisingly, second …-generation male marriage rates were also an increasing function of immigrant sex ratios. The results also suggest that higher sex … consistent with theories where higher sex ratios increase male competition for women in the marriage market …
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Immigrant and Native Responses to Welfare Reform
Kaestner, Robert; Kaushal, Neeraj - 2001
In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … effect on native- and foreign-born citizens' marriage decisions. TANF was associated with a decrease in the marriage rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124352
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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...
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Academic Dynasties : Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia
Durante, Ruben - 2011
Decentralization can lead to "good" or "bad" outcomes depending on the socio-cultural norms of the targeted communities. We investigate this issue by looking at the evolution of familism and nepotism in the Italian academia before and after the 1998 reform, which decentralized the recruitment of...
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Credit Constraints in Education
Lochner, Lance - 2011
We review studies of the impact of credit constraints on the accumulation of human capital. Evidence suggests that credit constraints are increasingly important for schooling and other aspects of households' behavior. We highlight the importance of early childhood investments, since their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120281
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Leaders : Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War
Costa, Dora L. - 2011
The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120320
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In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter) : Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1930
Olivetti, Claudia - 2013
This paper provides a new perspective on intergenerational mobility in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We devise an empirical strategy that allows to calculate intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of both sexes. The key insight of our approach...
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