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Shocking behavior : random wealth in Antebellum Georgia and human capital across generations
Bleakley, C. Hoyt; Ferrie, Joseph P. - In: The quarterly journal of economics 131 (2016) 3, pp. 1455-1495
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Shocking Behavior : Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations
Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013
Does the lack of wealth constrain parents' investments in the human capital of their descendants? We conduct a fifty …-year followup of an episode in which such constraints would have been plausibly relaxed by a random allocation of wealth to families … participation among adult white males. Winners received close to the median level of wealth - a large financial windfall orthogonal …
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Influence of family background on current family wealth in rural China
Satō, Hiroshi; Li, Shi - In: Hitotsubashi journal of economics 54 (2013) 1, pp. 95-117
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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment
Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013390948
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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment
Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414973
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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment
Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014289276
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Household consumption and labor supply response to economic shocks in Russia
Mu, Ren - 2004
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Income Shocks, Consumption, Wealth, and Human Capital : Evidence from Russia
Mu, Ren - 2006
to income shocks and, in particular, how household wealth and human capital affect the households' ability to smooth … have members with higher education levels. Wealth effects are more pronounced in rural areas, while education effects are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778958
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Income shocks, intergenerational transfers, and human capital in Germany
Croda, Enrica - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 180-186
This paper uses the GSOEP to analyze the impact of German reunification on financial transfers from parents to their adult children. A difference-in-differences approach is applied to estimate probability and amount of transfers. The analysis indicates that, across time, Easterners are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010495308
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Wealth, Officeholding, and Elite Ideology in Antebellum Georgia
Poulos, Jason - 2015
Does personal wealth translate into political power, and does it influence the ideology of officeholders? This paper … investigates the role of personal wealth in politics using the 1805 Georgia land lottery as a natural experiment. Matching lottery … legislature. I find that lottery wealth significantly reduces legislators' support for slavery legislation, and find no evidence …
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