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Ethnic capital and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment
Postepska, Agnieszka - 2017
This paper studies the role of ethnicity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Relying on heteroskedasticity to identify parameters in the presence of endogenous regressors, I revisit Borjas ethnic capital hypothesis. I find evidence that the OLS estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672855
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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment
Postepska, Agnieszka - 2017
This paper studies the role of ethnicity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Relying on heteroskedasticity to identify parameters in the presence of endogenous regressors, I revisit Borjas ethnic capital hypothesis. I find evidence that the OLS estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952622
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Noncognitive Skills and Their Effect on Education and Employment Outcomes
Mendez, Ildefonso; Zamarro, Gema - 2015
We use information on second-generation migrants to study the existence of a cultural component on the formation process of noncognitive skills and its effect on education and employment outcomes. Our measures of noncognitive skills include: personality traits that children are encouraged to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133577
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Noncognitive Skills and Their Effect on Education and Employment Outcomes
Mendez, Ildefonso; Zamarro, Gema - 2015
We use information on second-generation migrants to study the existence of a cultural component on the formation process of noncognitive skills and its effect on education and employment outcomes. Our measures of noncognitive skills include: personality traits that children are encouraged to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134549
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Elite Universities and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital
Barrios Fernández, Andrés; Neilson, Christopher; … - 2022
Whether elite universities expand or limit upward mobility in the long run depends on how they shape the intergenerational transmission of educational and social outcomes. We combine five decades of linked data on social and educational trajectories for parents and children in Chile with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292812
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052410
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The long shadows of past insults intergenerational transmission of health over 130 years
Andreella, Claudia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2015
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of health in the very long run. Using a unique purpose-built administrative dataset on individuals born in Sweden between 1930–34 and their parents, we study the intergenerational transmission (IGT) of health and the impact of previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308503
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The long shadows of past insults : intergenerational transmission of health over 130 years
Andreella, Claudia; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese; … - 2016
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of health in the very long run. Using a unique purpose-built administrative dataset on individuals born in Sweden between 1930-34 and their parents, we study the intergenerational transmission (IGT) of health and the impact of previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483919
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Doctor who? The effect of physician-patient match on the SES-health gradient
Kristiansen, Ida Lykke; Sheng, Yanying - 2022
We investigate whether primary care physician and patient concordance in terms of socio-economic status (SES) reduces the SES inequality in health. We measure physicians' SES by their childhood SES and find that SES concordance decreases low-SES patients' mortality, while high-SES patients'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269529
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The intergenerational transmission of education : evidence from the World War II cohorts in Europe
Havari, Enkelejda; Peracchi, Franco - 2019
The negative long-term effects of World War II on those directly exposed to it are well documented, but there is no … intergenerational effects of World War II in terms of educational attainments. We focus on parent-children dyads in which parents were … born between 1926 and 1949, and show two things. First, parents who suffered the war, that is, were exposed to major war …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053538