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Inequality in personality over the life cycle
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020
We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet … personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education …
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Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511571
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Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517207
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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274890
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258037
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Like brother, like sister? : the importance of family background for cognitive and non-cognitive skills ; conference paper
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2013
scores and measures of personality (locus of control, reciprocity, Big Five) for brothers and sisters. Using a Restricted …. Sibling correlations of personality traits range from 0.24 to 0.59, indicating that even for the lowest estimate, one fourth … in cognitive skills are higher than 0.50, indicating that more than half of the inequality can be explained by family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336812
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Gender gap in intergenerational educational persistence: can compulsory schooling reduce it?
Demirel, Merve; Okten, Cagla - 2020
We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of parents' educational attainment with their...
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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020 - This Version: March 15, 2020
We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lowerreturns,...
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Microeconometric Analyses of Education Production in Germany
Piopiunik, Marc - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...
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Educational inequality and the returns to skills
Lundberg, Shelly - 2013
to cognitive ability are generally consistent across family background groups, personality traits have very different …
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