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The Importance of Family Background and Neighborhood Effects as Determinants of Crime
Hederos Eriksson, Karin; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We quantify the importance of family background and neighborhood effects as determinants of criminal convictions and incarceration by estimating sibling and neighborhood correlations. At the extensive margin, factors common to siblings account for 24 percent of the variation in criminal...
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Why do Entrepreneurial Parents have Entrepreneurial Children?
Lindquist, Matthew; Sol, Joeri; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
the probability of children's entrepreneurship by about 60%. We further show that for adoptees, both biological and … these two effects for adopted children is almost identical to the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship for own …-birth children. We explore several candidate explanations for this important post-birth effect and present suggestive evidence in …
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Why do Entrepreneurial Parents have Entrepreneurial Children?
Lindquist, Matthew; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
parental entrepreneurship increases the probability of children's entrepreneurship by about 60%. We further show that for …-birth factors (biological parents). The sum of these two effects for adopted children is almost identical to the intergenerational … transmission of entrepreneurship for own-birth children. We explore several candidate explanations for this important post …
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Rich Dad, Smart Dad: Decomposing the Intergenerational Transmission of Income
Lefgren, Lars; Lindquist, Matthew; Sims, David - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2009
We construct a simple model, consistent with Becker and Tomes (1979), that decomposes the intergenerational income elasticity into the causal effect of financial resources, the mechanistic transmission of human capital, and the role that human capital plays in the determination of father’s...
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