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compromise these results. We also discuss assortative mating and household income as possible channels of causality. …
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This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational … income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists … including the U.S. income quintile transition matrix. I find that the parental time investment channel accounts for nearly 40 …
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This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...
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out that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. We estimate the effects on the intergenerational … parents and decreased attainment among individuals with educated parents. The effect is driven entirely by changes in the …
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In this paper we present sibling and neighbor correlations in school grades and cognitive skills as well as indicators of physical and mental health for a sample of German adolescents. In a first step, we estimate sibling correlations and find substantial influence of shared family and community...
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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
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Based on nationally representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … determinants of intergenerational income mobility and the relative risk of poverty differ with respect to the existing welfare … income elasticity in the United States than in Germany and Great Britain, and country differences concerning the influence of …
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