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The origins of intergenerational associations in crime : lessons from Swedish adoption data
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew J. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 20 (2013), pp. 68-81
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715792
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Poor little rich kids? : the determinants of the intergenerational transmission of wealth
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2015
Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a large sample of Swedish adoptees merged with similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308579
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The origins of intergenerational associations : lessons from Swedish adoption data
Björklund, Anders (contributor);  … - 2005
. -- intergenerational mobility ; nature and nurture ; income ; education ; adoption data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003085756
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Outside Options, Job Mobility, and Gender : Evidence from Divorce Laws
Hatamyar, Julia - 2020
This paper studies the effects of non-market outside options on measures of female job mobility using a hand-collected data set of 3,041 MBA resumes. Specifically, I examine two aspects of the household: spousal assets and children. In order to proxy for these unobserved household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825104
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Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth
Black, Sandra E. - 2015
Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a large sample of Swedish adoptees merged with similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016265
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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations : Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data
Bjorklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2021
We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318296
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Intergenerational Effects in Sweden : What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?
Bjorklund, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2021
We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … biological background and history of adoptees, we can test basic assumptions that the adoption strategy relies on. We find that … the adoption method survives these tests surprisingly well. Our empirical results suggest that one more year of either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319181
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The impact of unilateral divorce on crime
Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003774423
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The impact of unilateral divorce on crime
Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper, we evaluate the impact of unilateral divorce on crime. First, using crime rates from the FBI's Uniform … Crime Report program for the period 1965-1998 and differences in the timing in the introduction of the reform, we find that … unilateral divorce has a positive impact on violent crime rates, with an 8% to 12% average increase for the period under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666464
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The impact of unilateral divorce on crime
Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio - In: Journal of labor economics 30 (2012) 1, pp. 215-248
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520071