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Inventors among the "impoverished sophisticate"
Berger, Thor; Prawitz, Erik - 2023
patent records linked to census data. We document that the rise of innovation during Sweden's industrialization can largely …This paper examines the identity and origins of Swedish inventors prior to World War I drawing on the universe of … distribution. Analyzing children's opportunities to become an inventor, we show that inventors were disproportionately drawn from …
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Schooling Mobility across Three Generations in Six Latin American Countries
Celhay, Pablo; Gallegos, Sebastian - 2024
This paper presents new evidence on schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries. By combining survey information with national census data, we have constructed a novel dataset that includes 50,000 triads of grandparents, parents, and children born between 1890 and...
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Post-socialist transition and the intergenerational transmission of education in Kyrgyzstan
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - 2013
We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that...
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Post-socialist transition and the intergenerational transmission of education in Kyrgyzstan
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - 2013
We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293114
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Schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries
Celhay, Pablo; Gallegos, Sebastian - In: Journal of Population Economics 38 (2025) 1
This paper presents new evidence on schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries. By combining survey information with national census data, we have constructed a novel dataset that includes 50,000 triads of grandparents, parents, and children born between 1890 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015407555
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Parental Education and Invention: The Finnish Enigma
Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Hyytinen, Ari; … - 2023
Why is invention strongly positively correlated with parental income not only in the US but also in Finland which …
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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in Germany: moving with natives or stuck in their neighborhoods?
Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009
In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269398
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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds that there are significant differences in the degree of...
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The political economy of intergenerational income mobility
Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas; Moretti, Enrico - 2010
The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to measuring this reduced-form parameter, less is known about its underlying structural determinants....
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Intergenerational earnings mobility and the inheritance of employers
Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio - 2010
Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their...
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