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Intergenerational education mobility and the level of development: Evidence from Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman Bekir; Yazıcı, Hakkı - 2017
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060199
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - 2023
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014540911
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Educational policy and intergenerational income mobility: Evidence from the Finnish comprehensive school reform
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Pekkala, Sari; Uusitalo, Roope - 2006
This paper estimates the effect of a major education reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The …-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317949
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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2016
We study the importance of the extended family - or the dynasty - for the persistence in human capital inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to - in addition to parents, grandparents and great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695402
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Involuntary integration in public education, fertility and human capital
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008
This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children's human capital levels. The analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336029
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Who Matters Most? The Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling
Gang, Ira N. - 1996
This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334313
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On the Importance of Fertility Behavior in School Finance Policy Design
Yılmaz, Kuzey - 2014
To design an optimal education policy, it is essential to account for the fertility differential between the poor and … develop a dynamic general equilibrium in which parents choose the quantity of children, transfer a preschool ability to their … children, determine the quality of children by choosing private expenditures on basic education in addition to public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500259
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Biases in standard measures of intergenerational income dependence
Nybom, Martin; Stuhler, Jan - 2015
Estimates of the most common mobility measure, the intergenerational elasticity, can be severely biased if snapshots are used to approximate lifetime income. However, little is known about biases in other popular dependence measures. We use long Swedish income series to provide such evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440142
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Does inequality reduce mobility? The Great Gatsby Curve and its mechanisms
Brandén, Gunnar - 2019
A body of evidence has emerged in the literature on intergenerational mobility documenting that countries with large income differences also have less intergenerational mobility: a relationship known as the Great Gatsby Curve. In this paper, I estimate the Great Gatsby Curve within Sweden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388861
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How much does marital sorting contribute to intergenerational socio-economic persistence?
Holmlund, Helena - 2019
This paper investigates to what extent assortative mating contributes to intergenerational earnings persistence. I use an errors-in-variables model to demonstrate how pooling of partners' "potential" earnings affects intergenerational earnings persistence, and simulate persistence under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388862