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Intergenerational Mobility in Africa. [PDF]
Econometrica, 2021 We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2800 regions, documenting wide cross‐country and especially within‐country heterogeneity.
Alesina A +3 more
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Multidimensional intergenerational mobility. [PDF]
Soc Sci Med, 2023 In this paper, we present novel evidence of the extent to which intergenerational mobility is generalized or specific across domains of human and health capital. That is, do children who experience greater mobility in one domain (e.g., income) also experience mobility in other domains (education, health status, health behaviors, crime). Using rich data
Fletcher J, Jajtner KM.
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The Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants [PDF]
Journal of Labor Economics, 1992 This article analyzes the intergenerational mobility of immigrants. Using the 1940-70 censuses, the study reveals an important link between the earnings of immigrants and the earnings of their American-born children. Although there is some regression toward the mean, the earnings of second-generation Americans are strongly affected by variables ...
George J. Borjas
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Heritability of education rises with intergenerational mobility. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 As an indicator of educational opportunity, social scientists have studied intergenerational mobility—the degree to which children’s attainment depends on that of their parents—and how it varies across place or time. We combine this research with behavior genetics to show that societal variation in mobility is rooted in family advantages that siblings ...
Engzell P, Tropf FC.
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When less conditioning provides better estimates: overcontrol and endogenous selection biases in research on intergenerational mobility. [PDF]
Qual Quant, 2022 The counterfactual approach to causality has become the dominant approach to understand causality in contemporary social science research. Whilst most sociologists are aware that unobserved, confounding variables may bias the estimates of causal effects (
Grätz M.
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Regional intergenerational mobility and corporate innovation: Evidence from China. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 By stimulating social vitality and improving innovation efficiency, intergenerational mobility plays an essential role in economic development. With the data from China Labor-force Dynamic Survey (CLDS) and A-share listed companies, this paper uses the ...
Changfu Luo, Lian Xie
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Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001 High inequality has long been regarded as one of the main problems facing Latin American countries. To understand better the determinants of inequality and to help guide thinking about policy options, it is useful to know whether inequality mainly reflects low intergenerational mobility or whether it is driven by differences in individual ...
Jere R. Behrman +2 more
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Intergenerational Mobility around the World [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Using individual data from over 400 surveys, this paper compiles a global database of intergenerational mobility in education for 153 countries covering 97 percent of the world’s population. For 87 percent of the world’s population, it provides trends in intergenerational mobility for individuals born between 1950 to 1989.
van der Weide, Roy +4 more
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Long-term decline in intergenerational mobility in the United States since the 1850s. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance We document long-term trends in intergenerational occupational mobility for US native-born men using population registers and survey data from 1850 to 2015. We find substantial declines in social mobility over the past 165 y.
Song X +5 more
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What really matters for global intergenerational mobility? [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study investigates the genuine impacts of education expansion, education inequality, and parental dependency on intergenerational mobility. It utilizes data from the Global Database on Intergenerational Mobility for 153 countries and cohorts born ...
Khanh Duong
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