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The geography of intergenerational mobility : evidence of educational persistence and the "Great Gatsby Curve" in Brazil

Leone, Tharcisio - 2019

primary education have a statistically significant reduction in their chance of completing the educational system if they live …

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Transmission channels of intergenerational income mobility : empirical evidence from Germany and the Unites States

Coban, Mustafa; Sauerhammer, Sarah - 2017

Relying on harmonized individual data for Germany and the United States, we perform a country comparison regarding the underlying mechanisms of the intergenerational income mobility. By applying descriptive and structural decomposition methods, we estimate the relative importance of the...

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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2018

. Following the same methodology, the influence of economic growth and public education is evaluated: both are positively …

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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility

Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019

We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the...

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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility

Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019

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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016

economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440819

Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015

economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459537

Income inequality, equality of opportunity, and intergenerational mobility

Corak, Miles - 2013

Families, labor markets, and public policies all structure a child's opportunities and determine the extent to which adult earnings are related to family background. Cross-country comparisons and the underlying trends suggest that these drivers will most likely lower the degree of...

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The decline of routine tasks, education investments, and intergenerational mobility

Bennett, Patrick; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023

How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting … decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … vocational-trades education and increasingly invest in college education. Our results highlight that labor demand changes impact …

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Elite universities and the intergenerational transmission of human and social capital

Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Neilson, Christopher; … - 2024

Do elite colleges help talented students join the social elite, or help incumbent elites retain their positions? We combine intergenerationally-linked data from Chile with a regression discontinuity design to show that, looking across generations, elite colleges do both. Lower-status individuals...

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