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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

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High school dropout and the intergenerational transmission of crime

Dragone, Davide; Migali, Giuseppe; Zucchelli, Eugenio - 2021

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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High School Dropout and the Intergenerational Transmission of Crime

Dragone, Davide; Migali, Giuseppe; Zucchelli, Eugenio - 2021

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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...

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Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration

Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018

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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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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Long-run effects of technological change : the impact of automation and robots on intergenerational mobility

Heyman, Fredrik; Olsson, Martin - 2022

at the occupational level and heterogeneous adoption of robots across industries and regions influence children …-regions with a relatively large increase in robot adoption. In addition, we show that these children are worse off on a number of …

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The decline of routine tasks, education investments, and intergenerational mobility

Bennett, Patrick; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting differential exposure to the national decline in routine-task intensity across local labor markets, we show that the secular decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in...

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Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2023

How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes....

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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality

Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre Andrade de; … - 2022

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...

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