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The effect of parental wealth on children’s outcomes in early adulthood
Karagiannaki, Eleni - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2012
This paper presents the first UK estimates of the association between parental wealth during adolescence and a range of … children's outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes examined (which include … association reflects the indirect effect of parental wealth on children's education whereas for homeownership the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010692138
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The effect of parental wealth on children’s outcomes in early adulthood
Karagiannaki, Eleni - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2012
This paper presents the first UK estimates of the association between parental wealth during adolescence and a range of … children's outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes examined (which include … association reflects the indirect effect of parental wealth on children's education whereas for homeownership the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561811
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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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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/10012952622
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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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Does Tracking Shape Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment? Evidence from Switzerland
Falter, Jean-Marc; Chávez-Juárez, Florian - 2011
The Swiss schooling system is characterized by early tracking of students into different types of education. In this context, one may think that the impact of parental background may primarily affect transitions at a relatively young age. In this study, we investigate the impact of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176966
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Intergenerational Mobility in Educational Attainment in Mexico
Woodruff, Christopher M.; Binder, Melissa - 1999
Education in Mexico expanded rapidly over the past several generations. We use data from the 1994 Gender, Age, Family and Work household survey to document the "anatomy" of Mexico's educational expansion. The survey is to our knowledge the first in Mexico that also gathered additional data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192117
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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