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Circumstances and determination of individual outcomes in Bolivia : family background and equality of opportunities (2003-2013)
Herrera Jiménez, Alejandro; Villegas Quino, Horacio - 2016
We analyze the effect of some circumstances, i.e. exogenously determined individual characteristics, over individual income and likewise over achieved years of education. Gathering information for Bolivia and applying the theoretical scheme of Equality of Opportunity, this paper identifies as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703371
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The correlation of wealth between parents and children in Australia
Siminski, Peter; Yu, Sin Hung - 2021
We present the first estimates of intergenerational wealth correlation for Australia, using HILDA. The rank correlation … varies greatly by child age when wealth is observed, from 0.1 before age 30, to 0.5 after age 40. Most children in our ….306. Wealth correlations are difficult to interpret and not well grounded in theory. We therefore also implement Boserup et al …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649512
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Accounting for Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in France over the 20th Century : Method and Estimations
Garbinti, Bertrand - 2020
We propose a new and simple method to study intergenerational wealth correlation between two generations, which is easy … to implement in wealth (and housing) surveys and aims at overcoming the strong data limitation faced in most of the … countries. We show that the ownership of housing assets can be used to proxy for three wealth groups for all cohorts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827500
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Grand advantage : family wealth and grandchildren's educational achievement in Sweden
Hällsten, Martin; Pfeffer, Fabian T. - 2017
We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data …. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' wealth and their grandchildren’s educational … achievement. Doing so allows us to reliably establish the independent role of wealth in contributing to long-term inequalities in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697359
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Are we architects of our own happiness? : the importance of family background for well-being
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Wunder, Christoph - 2014
This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or well- being). We estimate sibling correlations and intergenerational correlations in self-reported life satisfaction, satisfaction with household income, job satisfaction, and satisfaction with health. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419392
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Are we architects of our own happiness? : the importance of family background for well-being
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Wunder, Christoph - 2014
This paper analyzes whether individuals have equal opportunity to achieve happiness (or wellbeing). We estimate sibling correlations and intergenerational correlations in self-reported life satisfaction, satisfaction with household income, job satisfaction, and satisfaction with health. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421528
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How equal are educational opportunities? : family background and student achievement in Europe and the United States
Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402504
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What the mean measures of mobility miss : learning about intergenerational mobility from conditional variance
Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, … - 2022 - This version: February 17, 2022
A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to understand the role of family background, but ignores the information contained in conditional variance. Using exceptionally rich data free of coresidency bias, we provide evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254235
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La "Doña" è mobile: The role of women in social mobility in a premodern economy
Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio; Gil-Guirado, Salvador; … - 2020
We use data from marriage records in Murcia, Spain, in the 18th century to study the role of women in social mobility in the pre-modern era. Our measure of socioeconomic standing is identification as a don or doña, an honorific denoting high, though not neccesarily, noble status. We show that...
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"Non-competing social groups"? The long debate on social mobility in Italy (c. 1890-1960)
Gabbuti, Giacomo - 2022
In the light of the recent literature on the intellectual history of inequality, this paper offers the first survey and a tentative classification of the Italian literature addressing issues related to social mobility, from late-19th century to the 'Economic Miracle' of the 1950s. During these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318967