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We explore the relationship between high school dropout and pupils' adult crime by accounting for the role of the … intergenerational transmission of crime. We employ a human capital model of schooling and crime and show that the intergenerational … transmission of crime could have a direct effect on adult crime as well as an indirect effect mediated by high school dropout. We …
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We explore the relationship between high school dropout and pupils' adult crime by accounting for the role of the … intergenerational transmission of crime. We employ a human capital model of schooling and crime and show that the intergenerational … transmission of crime could have a direct effect on adult crime as well as an indirect effect mediated by high school dropout. We …
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This paper studies intergenerational correlations in crime between fathers and their children and the underlying … focus on: (i) a sample of twins, (ii) an adoptee sample, (iii) the timing of the father’s crime, and (iv) the quality of the … father – child relationship. We find evidence that both direct channels play a role in the reproduction of crime from one …
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Parental entrepreneurship is a strong, probably the strongest, determinant of own entrepreneurship. We explore the origins of this intergenerational association in entrepreneurship. In particular, we identify the separate effects of pre- and post-birth factors (nature and nurture), by using a...
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This paper examines the long-term effect of a historical public crime, namely lynching, against Black offenders in the …
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An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected depends both on what incarceration does to their parent and what they learn from their parent's experience. To overcome endogeneity concerns, we exploit the random assignment of...
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This paper studies intergenerational correlations in drunk driving between fathers and their children using the Stockholm Birth Cohort. We find strong evidence of an intergenerational drunk driving relationship. Cohort members who have fathers with a drunk driving record have 2.59 times higher...
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This paper aims to provide information on intergenerational educational mobility in Turkey over the last century (at least over the last 65 years). This is the first study explicitly on providing the association between parents' and children's education in Turkey over time unlike the previous...
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