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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010

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Math matters! : the importance of mathematical and verbal skills for degree performance

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2019

We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are particularly predictive of achieving a first-class honours...

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More education, less volatility? : the effect of education on earnings volatility over the life cycle

Delaney, Judith M.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017

Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them from the adverse effects of recessions. We use a large...

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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014

Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...

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A Bayesian analysis of sibling correlations in health

Halliday, Timothy; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014

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The intergenerational transmission of health in the United States : a latent variables analysis

Wong, Ashley; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Halliday, Timothy - 2019

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Estimating intergenerational health transmission in Taiwan with administrative health records

Chang, Harrison; Halliday, Timothy; Lin, Ming-Jeng; … - 2023

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The intergenerational transmission of mental and physical health in the United Kingdom

Bencsik, Panka; Halliday, Timothy; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2021

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Understanding intergenerational mobility : the role of nature versus nurture in wealth and other economic outcomes and behaviors

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - 2019

Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which … large sample of Swedish adoptees merged with similar information for their biological and adoptive parents. Comparing the … relationship between the wealth of adopted and biological parents and that of the adopted child, we find that, even prior to any …

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Earnings returns to the British education expansion

Devereux, Paul J.; Fan, Wen - 2011

We study the effects of the large expansion in British educational attainment that took place for cohorts born between 1970 and 1975. Using the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, we find that the expansion caused men to increase education by about a year on average and gain about 8% higher wages;...

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