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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726079
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990917
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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;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731763