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Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test …
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To understand the degree of intergenerational mobility in the United States, and the differences between Americans and others, it is important to appreciate the workings and interaction of three fundamental institutions: the family, the market, and the state. But comparisons can also be...
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individual life satisfaction. Our estimates indicate, a primary breadwinner wifedecreases spousal individual happiness by roughly … income comparison forindividual happiness. Wives (barely) outearning their husbands seem to signal ’competition’. …This paper applies the German Socio-Economic Panel to analyse the effect of within household in-come comparison on …
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We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2,800 regions, documenting wide cross-country and especially within-country heterogeneity. Inertia looms large as differences in...
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