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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010
persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter … precision of the correlations themselves. -- Education ; income mobility ; income transmission ; intergenerational transmission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950730
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - In: Annual review of economics 6 (2014), pp. 689-733
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258249
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …
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Overeducation and mismatch in the labor market
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
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Overeducation and mismatch in the labor market
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and...
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The economics of child well-being
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - 2012
This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in international comparisons. Recent evidence on child development is summarized, and policies to promote...
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