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Place, Peers, and the Teenage Years: Long-Run Neighborhood Effects in Australia
I use variation in the age at which children move to show that where an Australian child grows up has a causal effect on their adult income, education, marriage, and fertility.
Nathan Deutscher
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Measuring Employer-to-Employer Reallocation
We revisit measurement of employer-to-employer (EE) transitions in the monthly Current Population Survey. The incidence of missing answers to the question on change of employer sharply increases starting with the introduction of a new software instrument
S. Fujita, G. Moscarini, F. Postel-Vinay
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"Workhorses of Opportunity": Regional Universities Increase Local Social Mobility
IZA DP No. 15622 OCTOBER 2022 “Workhorses of Opportunity”: Regional Universities Increase Local Social Mobility* Regional public universities educate approximately 70 percent of college students at four-year public universities and an even larger share ...
Greg Howard, Russell Weinstein
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Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europe
We use linked parent–child administrative data for five countries in North America and Europe, as well as detailed survey data for two more, to investigate methodological challenges in the estimation of absolute income mobility. We show that the commonly
Robert A. Manduca+13 more
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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
We estimate long-run intergenerational persistence in human capital using information on outcomes for the extended family: the dynasty. A dataset including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations, allows us to identify parents’ siblings ...
Adrian Adermon+2 more
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'And Yet, it Moves': Intergenerational Mobility in Italy
We estimate intergenerational income mobility in Italy using administrative data from tax returns. Our estimates of mobility are higher than prior work using survey data and indirect methods. The rankrank slope of parent-child income is 0.22, compared to
P. Acciari, Alberto Polo, G. Violante
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Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education
We use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s. We find huge differences across the country, with a strong North-South gradient.
L. Dearden+5 more
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Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment
Universal basic income (UBI) is an increasingly popular policy proposal, but there is no evidence regarding its longer-term consequences. We find that UBI generates large welfare losses in a general equilibrium model with imperfect capital markets, labor
Diego Daruich, Raquel Fernández
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Multigenerational Transmission of Wealth: Florence, 1403–1480
By using hand-collected data on households’ wealth assessments, we study multigenerational mobility in Florence during the late Middle Ages. We find that Florentine society was more mobile than one would expect but also that multigenerational mobility ...
Marianna Belloc+3 more
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The Transformation of Self Employment
Over the past half-century, while self-employment has consistently accounted for around one in ten of the United States workforce, its composition has changed.
Innessa Colaiacovo+3 more
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