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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244274
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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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Historical Public Crime and Intergenerational Mobility of Blacks : Evidence from Lynching Activity in the US South
Kampanelis, Sotiris - 2021
This paper examines the long-term effect of a historical public crime, namely lynching, against Black offenders in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244210
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School tracking and intergenerational social mobility : postponing school tracking can increase social mobility without significant adverse effects on educational achievement
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014
The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417325
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Intergenerational educational mobility in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427808
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New estimates of intergenerational mobility in Australia
Mendolia, Silvia; Siminski, Peter - 2015
We present new estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticity for Australia. We closely follow the methodology used by Leigh (2007), but use considerably more data (twelve waves of HILDA and four waves of PSID). Our adjusted estimates are intended to be comparable to those for other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347277
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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015
We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided us by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530608
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Intergenerational educational mobility in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439462