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We use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s. We find huge differences across the country, with a strong North-South gradient. Children from low-income families who grew up in the lowest mobility areas - overwhelmingly in...
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Poor families have more children and transfer less resources to them. This suggests that family decisions about fertility and transfers dampen intergenerational mobility. To evaluate the quantitative importance of this mechanism, we extend the standard heterogeneous agent life cycle model with...
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a paucity of representative datasets containing linked information on parents and children, the inequality of …
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-emotional development: internalising and externalising skills. More importantly, we can use multiple measures of parents’ skills collected …
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complete one educational stage more than their parents (primary education for those whose parents did not finish primary school …, or secondary education for those whose parents did not complete secondary school). It measures downward mobility as the … likelihood that an individual will fail to complete a level of education (primary or secondary) that their parents did attain. In …
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We provide novel evidence of the impact of coresidence bias on a large set of indicators of intergenerational mobility in education. We begin re-examining a recent claim that the correlation coefficient is less biased than the regression coefficient. Then, we expand our analysis to show that...
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effects working through the other channels, thus providing an in-depth understanding of the link between parents’ and children … children of high income parents early in their lives, which encourages greater cognitive development and lifetime earnings. …
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income parents early in their lives, and the resulting cognitive development. …
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