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The rising influence of family background on early school performance

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2023

We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings … disproportionally benefited lower class offspring. The rising influence of parents' earnings rank can partly be explained by a … strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …

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Family background, education, and earnings : the limited value of "test-score transmission"

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2024

secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … educated and affluent parents do much better on the screening tests that regulate access to the most selective tertiary … insignificant or even reversed. This is consistent with eighth-grade test scores reflecting individual human capital; SG parents …

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The correlation of wealth between parents and children in Australia

Siminski, Peter; Yu, Sin Hung - 2021

.306. Wealth correlations are difficult to interpret and not well grounded in theory. We therefore also implement Boserup et al …

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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft

-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …

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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015

We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided us by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm...

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Dynastic inequality compared : multigenerational mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany

Neidhöfer, Guido; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016

Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socio-economic status. In this country comparison setting we find evidence against Gregory Clark's "universal law of social...

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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2014

We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. For this purpose, an intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided by the Italian Embassy in Germany. In line with...

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Is gender destiny? : gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2021 - This version: March 22, 2021

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated by coresidency. The standard linear model misses...

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Tracking and the intergenerational transmission of education : Evidence from a natural experiment

Werder, Marten von; Lange, Simon - 2016 - December 2016

parents and decreased attainment among individuals with educated parents. The effect is driven entirely by changes in the …

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How much does marital sorting contribute to intergenerational socio-economic persistence?

Holmlund, Helena - 2019

This paper investigates to what extent assortative mating contributes to intergenerational earnings persistence. I use an errors-in-variables model to demonstrate how pooling of partners' "potential" earnings affects intergenerational earnings persistence, and simulate persistence under...

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