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Ethnic capital and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment
Postepska, Agnieszka - 2017
This paper studies the role of ethnicity in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. Relying on heteroskedasticity to identify parameters in the presence of endogenous regressors, I revisit Borjas ethnic capital hypothesis. I find evidence that the OLS estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672855
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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
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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/10011447319
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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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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?
Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte - 2018
Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … by Norwegian parents to a population panel data set with detailed information on disaggregated wealth portfolios and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814565
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Social mobility in Germany
Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021
We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597896
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Social mobility in Germany
Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021
We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190822
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433588
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The name says it all : multigenerational social mobility in Switzerland, 1550-2019
Häner, Melanie; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2021
Social mobility is a key element of meritocratic societies. We analyze multigenerational social mobility with a hand-collected yearly Swiss dataset from 1550 to 2019. With our surname-based approach, we measure the Swiss society's overall permeability over more than 450 years. Furthermore, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013328046
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A flying start : the long-run effects of inter vivos transfers
Colmsjö, Elin - 2024
wealth levels and (ii) indirectly supporting wealth accumulation by impacting interest rates, borrowing, entrepreneurship …, and spending. A unique Danish policy setting allows me to identify intergenerational wealth transfers channeled through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014472492