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Inequality and Mobility
Hassler, John; Mora, Rodríguez; Vicente, José; Zeira, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
inequality. We show that the correlation between mobility and inequality depends on which factor caused the change in inequality …. The model can thus help discriminate between different competing explanations of the recent rise in US wage inequality … correlation between wage inequality and mobility. Public subsidies to education reduce inequality, but the effect on mobility is …
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Forced to be Rich? Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding OLS estimates and concluded that the group of individuals who are...
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Rotten Kids with Bad Intentions
Netzer, Nick; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We examine a "Rotten Kid" model (Becker 1974) where a player with social preferences interacts with an egoistic player. We assume that social preferences are intention-based rather than outcome-based. In a very general multi-stage setting we show that any equilibrium must involve mutually unkind...
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Real Wage Inequality
Moretti, Enrico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
use real wages. To understand the implications of this finding for changes in well-being inequality I use a simple general … increase in well-being inequality even if the increase in real wage inequality is limited. Alternatively, it is possible that … that the increase in well-being inequality between 1980 and 2000 is smaller than the increase in nominal wage inequality. …
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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Crime: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data
Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted sons born in Sweden, we have access to the criminal records of both the adopting and biological parents. This allows us to assess the relative importance of pre-birth factors...
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A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Schwandt, Hannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....
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In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1930
Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper provides a new perspective on intergenerational mobility in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We devise an empirical strategy that allows to calculate intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of both sexes. The key insight of our approach...
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Social background, education and inequality
Andersen, Torben M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
inequality than a more "passive" public sector. …
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Does Quality Time Produce Quality Children? Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital using Parental Deaths
Gould, Eric D; Simhon, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine whether the parent-child correlation in schooling outcomes stems from a causal relationship. Using a large sample of Israeli children who lost one parent during childhood, we...
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The Economics of Human Cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
. In the short run, cloning reduces inequality. In the long run, it creates a perfectly egalitarian society where all … necessarily eliminate inequality; nor does it disappear in the long run. Finally, if fertility is negatively correlated with …
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