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Intergenerational Persistence of Earnings: The Role of Early and College Education
Restuccia, Diego; Urrutia, Carlos - Centro de Investigación Económica (CIE), Departamento … - 2002
parents invest in early and college education of their children subject to borrowing constraints. Children differ exogenously … in innate abilities, which can be correlated with their parent's innate ability. An important feature of the environment … is that the quality of early education determines the probability of college completion. We calibrate a stationary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151236
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Intergenerational Persistence of Earnings: The Role of Early and College Education.
Restuccia, Diego; Urrutia, Carlos - University of Western Ontario, Economic Policy Research … - 2002
parents invest in early and college education of their children subject to borrowing constraints. Children differ exogenously … in innate abilities, which can be correlated with their parent's innate ability. An important feature of the environment … is that the quality of early education determines the probability of college completion. We calibrate a stationary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005730742
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Human capital and trends in the transmission of economic status across generations in the U.S.
Richey, Jeremiah; Rosburg, Alicia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Using data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate the changing roles of ability … and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. Potential changes are identified using a … decomposition method based on the OLS omitted variable bias formula. We find that ability plays a substantially diminished role for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108217
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Inequality and Mobility
Hassler, John; Mora, José Vicente Rodríguez; Zeira, Joseph - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
education sector lead to a negative correlation. A better understanding of the causes for changes in inequality over time or … shows that skilled parents might prefer more public education than unskilled parents, if the educational barriers for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547384
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Explaining Intergenerational Income Persistence: Non-cognitive Skills, Ability and Education
Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2006
increased influence of parental income in determining educational attainment, especially higher education, and labour market … attachment. It is also clear that the stronger relationship between parental income and education comes in part through the … growing relationship between parental income and the non-cognitive characteristics that influence education outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077131
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Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain
Blanden, Jo; Goodman, Alissa; Gregg, Paul; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This paper compares and contrasts estimates of the extent of intergenerational income mobility over time in Britain. Estimates based on two British birth cohorts show that mobility appears to have fallen in a cross-cohort comparison of people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s (the 1958 birth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016751
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Intergenerational Mobility and Assortative Mating: Effects of an Educational Reform
Holmlund, Helena - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2008
educational reform, implemented in Sweden in the 1950s and 60s, which postponed tracking and extended compulsory education from … is likely that the reform increased education more for children from low educated households, compared to those children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017235
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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137338
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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
Haan, Monique de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper led to a publication in <A href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/full/10.1086/660798">'The Journal of Labor Economics'</A>, 29(4), 859-92.<p>This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent...</p></a>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257435
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Intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain: a comparative study of parent-child pathways
Blanden, Jo; Haveman, Robert; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
pathways by which parental status is related to offspring status, including education, labor market attachment, occupation … because of the higher returns to education and skills, the pathway through offspring education is relatively more important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240196