We estimate the effects of authoritarian policies across generations using the arrival of the Pinochet dictatorship to Chile in 1973 as historical context. The dictatorship reduced higher education opportunities for new students across all universities. Using census data, we find that parents...

Compared to existing needs adaptation policies are lagging behind significantly. Most environmental economists would argue that adaptation measures such as flood protection have the feature of a local public good, and since benefits accrue to later generations also, the public goods issue is the...

This paper shows that an integration policy aimed at unemployed adult immigrants generated positive spillovers for their children. Our research design builds on a discontinuity in the phase-in-rule of Finland s 1999 reform that introduced integration plans a new approach for allocating...

This study examines intergenerational income dependency in incomes before and after public cash and in-kind transfers. We use administrative data from Denmark and estimate intergenerational dependency with a rank-rank specification. We predict in-kind transfers from childcare, schooling,...

Measuring the intergenerational mobility of welfare provides key inputs for policies, but very few studies examine intergenerational mobility of subjective well-being (SWB), particularly in a poorer, transitional country context. We make new contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from...

We analyze how intergenerational mobility and inequality would change relative to the status quo if dynasties had access to optimal insurance against low ability of future generations. Based on a dynamic, dynastic Mirrleesian model, we find that insurance against intergenerational ability risk...

Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...

We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically and from a global viewpoint whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries. Our theoretical model derives distinctive testable...

Intergenerational equity is commonly set aside in favor of other policy objectives, perhaps because of the extreme challenges inherent in adopting and applying an intergenerational equity normative framework. Even when there is a near consensus that the choices of today will have substantial...

This paper attempts to distinguish between two alternative views of the labor market problems faced by young workers in a number of industrialized countries in the 1970s and early 1980s. The first view is that the low relative earnings and high unemployment rates experienced by these workers...