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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...
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Since the mapping of the human genome in 2004, biologists have demonstrated genetic links to the expression of several income-enhancing physical traits. To illustrate how heredity produces intergenerational economic effects, this study uses one trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which...
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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
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
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
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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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 …
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nationalism and to have hostile relations with immigrants. Multiple equilibria are possible and better schooling may eliminate …
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nationalism and to have hostile relations with immigrants. Multiple equilibria are possible and better schooling may eliminate … the theoretical model. -- nationalism ; xenophobia ; interpersonal relations ; value systems …
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nationalism and to have hostile relations with immigrants. Multiple equilibria are possible and better schooling may eliminate … theoretical model. -- Nationalism ; immigration ; interpersonal relations ; value systems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879349