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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa
Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019
This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102991
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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/10011714448
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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/10011698232
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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling : a nonparametric bounds analysis
Haan, Monique de - 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/10011376535
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Intergenerational mobility of education in Europe : geographical patterns, cohort-linked measures, and the innovation nexus
McNamara, Sarah; Neidhöfer, Guido; Lehnert, Patrick - 2024 - This version: January 16, 2024
We estimate intergenerational mobility of education for people born 1940-1999 at the subnational level for 40 European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468954
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Elite universities and the intergenerational transmission of human and social capital
Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Neilson, Christopher; … - 2024
Do elite colleges help talented students join the social elite, or help incumbent elites retain their positions? We combine intergenerationally-linked data from Chile with a regression discontinuity design to show that, looking across generations, elite colleges do both. Lower-status individuals...
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Intergenerational education mobility and the level of development : evidence from Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Yazıcı, Hakkı - 2017 - This version: November 2017
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761058
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Intergenerational education mobility and the level of development : evidence from Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Yazici, Hakki - 2017
characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a three-generation mobility analysis. We find that … the education mobility is significantly lower in Turkey compared to developed economies. Second, by exploiting large … regional variation in the level of economic development across Turkey, we find that intergenerational education persistence is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763903
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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/10010530608
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Who assimilates? : statistical artefacts and intergenerational mobility in immigrant families
Luthra, Renee; Soehl, Thomas - 2014
attainment than parental education. …
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