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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293120
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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database
Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo C. - 2017
series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818727
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Parental education and the rising transmission of income between generations
Connolly, Marie; Haeck, Catherine; Laliberté, Jean-William - 2020
Canada. At the same time, returns to education have gone up. Both factors have contributed to exacerbating income gaps … between children of parents with and without secondary education. However, the transmission of residual parental income … education. Overall, these patterns suggest that fostering high school completion may help slow down the worsening of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418399
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When measure matters: Coresidence bias and intergenerational mobility revisited
Muñoz S., Ercio; Siravegna, Mariel - 2023
in education. We begin re-examining a recent claim that the correlation coefficient is less biased than the regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518300
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Educational inequality and intergenerational mobility in Latin America: A new database
Neidhöfer, Guido; Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2017
series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698961
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Parental background matters: Intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015
We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided us by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350836
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The Long-Run Impact of Childhood Poverty and the Mediating Role of Education
Bellani, Luna; Bia, Michela - 2017
This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653405
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Like (Grand)Parent, like Child? Multigenerational Mobility across the EU
Colagrossi, Marco; d'Hombres, Beatrice; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2019
This study shows that the intergenerational transmission of inequality in most of the 28 EU countries is higher than what a parent-to-child paradigm would suggest. While a strand of the literature claims that this is due to a direct grandparental effect, economic historian Gregory Clark...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006003
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Grand advantage: Family wealth and grandchildren's educational achievement in Sweden
Hällsten, Martin; Pfeffer, Fabian T. - 2017
We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' wealth and their grandchildren's educational achievement. Doing so allows us to reliably establish the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039324
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Do borrowing constraints matter for intergenerational educational mobility? Evidence from Japan
Niimi, Yoko - 2018
This paper examines the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment using data on Japan. By exploiting unique information on whether children have ever given up schooling for financial reasons and, if they have, which level of schooling they have forgone, it attempts to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944214