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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467531
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll … attainment of exposed individuals, but also that of their children. We find that one extra year of maternal (paternal) exposure … to CS increased children's educational attainment by 0.015 (0.016) years - larger than the average effects on the parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014521056
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll … attainment of exposed individuals, but also that of their children. We find that one extra year of maternal (paternal) exposure … to CS increased children's educational attainment by 0.015 (0.016) years - larger than the average effects on the parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461378
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Does increasing parents' schooling raise the schooling of the next generation? : evidence based on conditional second moments
Farré, Lídia; Klein, Roger W.; Vella, Francis - 2009
This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of parental education via instrumental variables we exploit the feature of the transmission mechanism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003801080
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Strategic parenting, birth order and school performance
Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Pantano, Juan - 2013
stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in … later-born children. Taken together, these patterns are consistent with a reputation model of strategic parenting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201292
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The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment
Deshpande, Manasi; Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
child's human capital? Most parents whose children receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits overestimate the … likelihood that their child will receive SSI benefits in adulthood. Reducing parents' expectations that children will receive … benefits in adulthood does not increase investments in children's human capital. This zero effect is precisely estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322898
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Dynastic inequality compared : multigenerational mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany
Neidhöfer, Guido; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socio-economic status. In this country comparison setting we find evidence against Gregory Clark's "universal law of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548051
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Inequality from generation to generation : the United States in comparison
Corak, Miles - 2016
determine the life chances of children is complicated; the result of a particular history, societal values, and the nature of … these countries share many other things in common, particularly the importance and meaning of equality of opportunity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475187
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Housing Wealth
Daysal, N. Meltem; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Wasser, David N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
the causal impact of parental housing wealth during different childhood periods on children's long-run wealth accumulation … during early-childhood is transmitted to children's overall and housing wealth in adulthood, respectively. The corresponding … increases in adult children's home ownership, educational attainment, and earnings. However, earnings and education can explain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372426
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Singapore and the United States
Ng, Irene YH; Shen, Xiaoyi; Ho, Kong Weng - 2008
This study compared intergenerational earnings mobility in Singapore and the United States by replicating the limitations in the Singapore National Youth Survey on the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The mean estimated earnings elasticities are almost identical: 0.26 in Singapore and 0.27...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218454