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strand of research: samples of small size, with low variability in parental education, not randomly selected from the …
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strand of research: samples of small size, with low variability in parental education, not randomly selected from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980529
concerning the effect of mother’s education are very sensitive to the size of the sample, while the part of the educational …
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The paper shows that parents' education is an important, but hardly exclusive part of the common family background that … an additional year of either mother's or father's education increases their children's education by as little as one …-tenth of a year. There is evidence that father's education has a larger effect than that of mothers: one explanation is that …
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, with low variability in parental education, not randomly selected from the population. The part of the educational …
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This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
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characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a three-generation mobility analysis. We find that … the education mobility is significantly lower in Turkey compared to developed economies. Second, by exploiting large … regional variation in the level of economic development across Turkey, we find that intergenerational education persistence is …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of parental education on children’s education in 13 European countries, using … parental birth order as instrument in the intergenerational mobility literature. We find that parental education has a positive …, large and significant causal effect on children’s education. This finding is robust to the instrument chosen (birth order …
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This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...
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This paper estimates the causal effect of parental education on children’s education in 13 European countries, using … parental birth order as instrument in the intergenerational mobility literature. We find that parental education has a positive …, large and significant causal effect on children’s education. This finding is robust to the instrument chosen (birth order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010826220