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The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Schooling of their Children
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent; … - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2005
This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age. Least squares estimation reveals conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010859422
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Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Immigrant Mothers and their Daughters in Sweden
Niknami, Susan - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2010
This study uses extensive Swedish register data to analyze the intergenerational transmission of education between immigrant mothers and their daughters. The results show that the transmission is only slightly lower among daughters of immigrant mothers compared to native daughters. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532045
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Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Immigrant Mothers and their Daughters in Sweden
Niknami, Susan - Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms … - 2010
This study uses extensive Swedish register data to analyze the intergenerational transmission of education between immigrant mothers and their daughters. The results show that the transmission is only slightly lower among daughters of immigrant mothers compared to native daughters. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008605949
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The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Schooling of Their Children
Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; O’Sullivan, Vincent; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age. Least squares estimation reveals conventional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762216
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Microeconometric Analyses of Education Production in Germany
Piopiunik, Marc - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391731
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Choosing the Right Parents: Changes in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality Between the 1970s and the Early 1990s.
Levine, D.I. - California Berkeley - Institute of Industrial Relations - 1999
This paper uses the General Social Survey and the comparison between the National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Men and of Youth to measure how returns to young men's family background have changed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s and early 1990s. Coming from a wealth family and having a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639459
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The Educational Legacy of the Greatest Generation: Paternal Military Service and Baby Boomer Educational Progress
Kimbrough, Gray - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2013
increased in educational attainment after the War, culminating in Baby Boomer children graduating from high school at a greater … associated with children's educational attainment o er a possible explanation. In this paper, I link Baby Boomer children to … that father's veteran status is associated with greater educational attainment for children. Exploiting discontinuities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840020
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The long-lasting effects of family background: A European cross-country comparison
Mazzonna, Fabrizio - In: Economics of Education Review 40 (2014) C, pp. 25-42
Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and SHARELIFE, which collects retrospective information on respondents’ family backgrounds during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010776798
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The role of parental cognitive aging in the intergenerational mobility of cognitive abilities
Conti, Valentina; Kopinska, Joanna - Associazione Italiana per la Cultura della Cooperazione … - 2012
This paper studies intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities from parents to children. We create a measure … results concerning the role of parental cognitive transition during adult life. We find that children benefit not only from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991177
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Moving Towards Estimating Lifetime Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the UK
Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey; Vittori, Claudia - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2014
Estimates of intergenerational economic mobility that use point in time measures of income and earnings suffer from lifecycle and attenuation bias. We consider these issues for the National Child Development Study (NCDS) and British Cohort Study (BCS) for the first time, highlighting how common...
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