Search Results - subject:"intergenerational mobility"

Measuring family (dis)advantage : lessons from detailed parental information

Vries, Sander de - 2025

This paper provides new insights on the importance of family background by linking 1.7 million Dutch children's incomes to an exceptionally rich set of family characteristics - including income, wealth, education, occupation, crime, and health. Using a machine learning approach, I show that...

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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries

Boustan, Leah Platt; Manning, Alan; Arellano-Bover, Jaime; … - 2025

We estimate intergenerational mobility of immigrants and their children in fifteen receiving countries. We document …

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The myth of Nordic mobility : social mobility rates in modern Denmark and Sweden

Clark, Gregory; Hørlyk Kristensen, Martin - 2025

, and this helps explain the low rates of intergenerational mobility. …

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Intergenerational mobility in depression and anxiety in India

Hervé, Justine; Mani, Subha; Behrman, Jere R.; … - 2025

facilitate intergenerational mobility in mental health and related outcomes. …

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Cycles of malnutrition : intergenerational health transmission in India

Gautam, Santosh; Halliday, Timothy; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2025

We provide the first estimates of broad-based health transmission between parents and their young children in India. The correlations between maternal health and child health outcomes - such as anemia, stunting, and body mass index - are approximately 0.20. When aggregating these health measures...

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The relationship between intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity

Adermon, Adrian; Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin - 2025

two separate strands of research. The intergenerational mobility literature estimates parent-child persistence in a … approaches by estimating equality of opportunity and intergenerational mobility measures - as well as sibling correlations …, resulting in insights on the plausibility of interpreting intergenerational mobility measures as informative about equality of …

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Intergenerational mobility in Ottoman Istanbul : evidence from court records

Coşgel, Metin Murat; Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio; … - 2025

, long-term trends in intergenerational mobility in a major premodern city. The dataset contains information on over 270 … shifts in intergenerational mobility, and determine whether these shifts reflect primarily horizontal movements within social …

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America's rise in human capital mobility

Althoff, Lukas; Brookes Gray, Harriet; Reichardt, Hugo - 2025

of intergenerational mobility that considers multiple inputs, including mothers’ and fathers’ human capital. To estimate …

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From parents' cradle to children's career : intergenerational effects of parental investments

Vries, Sander de; Ketel, Nadine; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2024

There is a clear consensus that childhood experiences shape adult success, yet there is limited understanding of their impact on future generations. We proxy parental investments during childhood with birth order and study whether disadvantages due to lower investments are transmitted to future...

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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Feichtmayer, Jennifer - In: Review of income and wealth 70 (2024) 4, pp. 1226-1251

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