The persistence of socioeconomic outcomes across generations acts as a barrier to a society’s ability to exploit its resources efficiently. In order to derive policy measures which aim at accelerating intergenerational mobility, we review the existent body of research on the causes, effects...

Primarily using data from the 2010 European Social Survey, we analyze intergenerational educational persistence in 20 European countries, studying cross-country and cross-cluster differences in intergenerational mobility; the role of gender in determining educational persistence across...

Der Haushalt ist eine "Black Box" in Bezug auf Entscheidungsfindungsprozesse, auf individuelle Präferenzen einzelner Haushaltsmitglieder und auf die Rolle von Geschlecht und Geschlechterverhältnissen in Entscheidungsprozessen. Bislang gibt es noch keine großräumige, jedenfalls aber keine...

Der Haushalt ist eine „Black Box“ in Bezug auf Entscheidungsfindungsprozesse, auf individuelle Präferenzen einzelner Haushaltsmitglieder und auf die Rolle von Geschlecht und Geschlechterverhältnissen in Entscheidungsprozessen. Bislang gibt es noch keine großräumige, jedenfalls aber keine...

A puzzle has emerged from studies examining the wage effects of sexual orientation for women. Although lesbian and bisexual women face discrimination in the labor market, most studies of the wages of female full-time workers in same-sex couples versus those in different-sex couples find that the...

We examine differences in household specialization between same-sex and different-sex couples within and across three birth cohorts: Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. Using three measures of household specialization, we find that same-sex couples are less likely than their...

<title>Abstract</title> In many societies, children' educational attainment is heavily dependent on their parents' education; but that result can differ by the gender of both the parents and the child. Using a Markovian approach, along with uni- and multivariate econometric techniques, this study employs the...

This paper studies the gender wealth gap using 2010 Household Finance and Consumption Survey data for 15 European countries, and finds that households with only one male adult have more net wealth than households with one female adult, and that households with an adult couple have the highest...

After surveying the literature on the economics of household decision-making, we employ data from the 2010 European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) to study the relationship between personal characteristics such as gender and decision-making power and responsibility. We...