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children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …
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children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children … respect to risk and trust attitudes and thus transmit their own attitudes more strongly. The results are robust to including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079165
The aim of this paper is to bridge the gaps in existing accounts of the evolution of intergenerational social mobility in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. The study makes a potentially valuable contribution to the literature by extending the spectrum of institutional and historical contexts, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999674
Research on intergenerational transmission of inequality tends to focus on unequal access to wealth as well as human and social capital. Often lost in these discussions is the role of parent-offspring relationships. This study takes a closer look into families and investigates how the...
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We study how the intersection between skin tone and sex shapes intergenerational mobility of economic resources in Mexico. Using two recent social mobility surveys, we estimate the rank persistence and transition matrices by sex combined with skin tone groups. First, we find no differences in...
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Public sector jobs are particularly attractive in Italy because of the wage rents they pay and other favorable working conditions (notably job security). Parents working in the public sector may try to use their positions, or the network of relationships formed at work, to favor their...
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Mounting empirical evidence shows that kids of self-employed parents are very likely to become entrepreneurs themselves. These findings are often attributed to the intergenerational transmission of parental norms and values. However, many papers in the field are not that explicit about parental...
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This paper analyses the intergenerational income mobility for natives and immigrants in Switzerland. An IV approach … subgroups of the Swiss population shows strong differences between Swiss and immigrants. Compared to natives, immigrants are … for natives is found to be similar for all income quantiles. Among immigrants, mobility is higher at the lower as well as …
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In this paper, we investigate to what degree young adults live in neighbourhoods that are similar, in terms of relative average household income, to the neighbourhoods in which they grew up. We use regression analysis on register data for all individuals who were born in 1974 and lived in...
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.S., including weight, height, the body mass index (BMI), asthma and depression for both natives and immigrants. We show that both …, immigrants experience higher persistence than natives in weight and BMI. We also find that mothers' education decreases children …, we find that the longer immigrants remain in the U.S., the less intergenerational persistence there is and the more …
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