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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

parents to children; (2) positive assortative mating of parents, which tends to reinforce the impact of parents on the child … box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental …

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Is Child Like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin

Gang, Ira; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

even in the second generation. For the children of the foreign-born, parental schooling plays no role in making educational …

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Coping with Technological Progress: The Role of Ability in Making Inequality so Persistent

Rubinstein, Yona; Tsiddon, Daniel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

parents' income that explains the wage growth of their children. … between group inequality. Guided by this theory we turn to the PSID for evidence. Using parents' education to approximate … child's ability we show the following set of results: (a) Controlling for education of the child, parents' education …

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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P; Siedler, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance

Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young singles and the subsequent joint labour supply decisions of partnered couples. We consider two...

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Sorting, Education and Inequality

Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality. It discusses the implications of different...

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Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality

Fernández, Raquel; Guner, Nezih; Knowles, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

in which agents decide whether to become skilled or unskilled, form households, consume and have children. We show that …

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Occupational Choice Across Generations

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

occupational choice for the children of immigrants as well as for natives. Our findings are surprisingly similar for both natives …

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Job Tenure: Does History Matter?

Booth, Alison L; Francesconi, Marco; Garcia-Serrano, Carlos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

accumulate, women are more likely to shift into part-time employment while men are more likely to shift into self-employment. …

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Worker Matching and Firm Value

Moen, Espen R; Yashiv, Eran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

changes over time in a nontrivial way as co-workers are replaced with new workers. The paper derives optimal hiring and …

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