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Unobtrusively into the ranks of colonial society' : intergenerational wealth mobility in the Cape Colony over the eighteenth century
Cilliers, Jeanne; Fourie, Johan; Swanepoel, Christie - In: Economic history of developing regions 34 (2019) 1, pp. 48-71
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156974
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility
Card, David - 2018
We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and … attainment between parents and children, we document lower average mobility rates for blacks than whites, but wide variation … across states and counties for both races. We show that schooling choices of white children were highly responsive to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911476
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility
Card, David - 2018
We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and … attainment between parents and children, we document lower average mobility rates for blacks than whites, but wide variation … across states and counties for both races. We show that schooling choices of white children were highly responsive to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480653
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Birth Order in the Very Long-Run : Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940
Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544686
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Do grandparents and great-grandparents matter? : multigenerational mobility in the US, 1910-2013
Ferrie, Joseph P.; Massey, Catherine; Rothbaum, Jonathan - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011564366
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Do grandparents matter? : multigenerational mobility in the United States : 1940-2015
Ferrie, Joseph P.; Massey, Catherine; Rothbaum, Jonathan - In: Journal of labor economics : JOLE 39 (2021) 3, pp. 597-637
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012548802
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Do Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the US, 1910-2013
Ferrie, Joseph - 2016
children. Until very recently, the influence of earlier generations could not be assessed even in long-running longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456045
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Do Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the Us, 1910-2013
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 2016
children. Until very recently, the influence of earlier generations could not be assessed even in long-running longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982039
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The intergenerational transmission of human capital : evidence from the golden age of upward mobility
Card, David E.; Domnisoru, Ciprian; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914893
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The intergenerational transmission of human capital : evidence from the golden age of upward mobility
Card, David E.; Domnisoru, Ciprian; Taylor, Lowell J. - In: Journal of labor economics : JOLE 40 (2022), pp. S39-S95
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186924