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The Rise of American Ingenuity : Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2017

We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking historical U ….S. patents to state and county-level aggregates and matching inventors to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940. We identify a … macro and micro-level determinants. We find a positive relationship between innovation and drivers of regional performance …

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"And Yet it Moves" : Intergenerational Mobility in Italy

Acciari, Paolo - 2019

We link tax returns across two generations to provide the first estimate of intergenerational mobility in Italy based on administrative income data. Italy emerges as less immobile than previously depicted by studies using proxies for economic status or survey data with imputation procedures....

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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2,800 regions, documenting wide cross-country and especially within-country heterogeneity. Inertia looms large as differences in...

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Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Lee, Chul-In; Solon, Gary - 2021

Previous studies of recent U.S. trends in intergenerational income mobility have produced widely varying results, partly because of large sampling errors. By making more efficient use of the available information in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we generate more reliable estimates of the...

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Borrowing Constraints, College Aid, and Intergenerational Mobility

Hanushek, Eric A.; Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Yilmaz, Kuzey - 2021

The current level and form of subsidization of college education is often rationalized by appeal to capital constraints on individuals. Because borrowing against human capital is difficult, capital constraints can lead to nonoptimal outcomes unless government intervenes. We develop a simple...

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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility

Borjas, George J. - 2022

This paper analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. I assume that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic...

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Intergenerational Mobility and Support for Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2017

Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S.. Americans are more optimistic than Europeans about social mobility. Our randomized treatment...

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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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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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How Does Declining Unionism Affect the American Middle Class and Intergenerational Mobility?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2015

This paper examines unionism's relationship to the size of the middle class and its relationship to intergenerational mobility. We use the PSID 1985 and 2011 files to examine the change in the share of workers in a middle-income group (defined by persons having incomes within 50% of the median)...

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