Heritability of education rises with intergenerational mobility. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019 Engzell P, Tropf FC.
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Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education [PDF]
This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational advantage over ...
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A., Nguyen, Trong-Ha
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Replication package for: The Gift of Moving: Intergenerational Consequences of a Mobility Shock
, 2021 Emi Nakamura +2 more
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Race‐related research in economics
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract Issues of racial justice and economic inequalities between racial and ethnic groups have risen to the top of public debate. Economists' ability to contribute to these debates is based on the body of race‐related research. We study the volume and content of race‐related research in economics.
Arun Advani +4 more
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Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany: Moving with Natives or Stuck in their Neighborhoods? [PDF]
In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants ...
Yuksel, Mutlu
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Trends in Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Canada [PDF]
, 2018 Ehsan Latif
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Does nature shape risk preferences? Evidence from Chile, Norway, and Tanzania
Economic Inquiry, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 568-590, April 2025.Abstract Does exposure to a more risky environment affect risk preferences? Going beyond single‐case study evidence, we report results from five surveys conducted in three countries and link this with administrative data to study whether a link between exposure and preferences is detectable and widespread. We find no evidence for endogenous preferences
Florian Diekert, Robbert‐Jan Schaap
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Intergenerational mobility, race, and allostatic load: Diminished health returns for Black older adults? [PDF]
SSM Popul HealthBell MJ, Ferraro KF.
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More Inequality, Less Social Mobility [PDF]
We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers’ earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have ...
Andrew Leigh, Dan Andrews
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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
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