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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries
Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft
We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This is the first paper, to our knowledge, to provide estimates of sibling...
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Are estimates of intergenerational mobility biased by non-response? : evidence from the Netherlands
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Hirsch, Stefa - 2018
-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows us to examine whether selective … responses bias the estimated relationship between parental income and children's mathematics and language test scores in grades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869114
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Transmission channels of intergenerational income mobility : empirical evidence from Germany and the Unites States
Coban, Mustafa; Sauerhammer, Sarah - 2017
underlying mechanisms of the intergenerational income mobility. By applying descriptive and structural decomposition methods, we … intergenerational income mobility in Germany, endowments account for solely 30 percent in the United States. Nonlinearities in the … transmission channels along the income distribution in the United States indicate that the endowment effect slightly decreases in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770657
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The long-term consequences of a golden nest
Angelini, Viola; Bertoni, Marco; Weber, Guglielmo - 2020
We study the role played by the standard of living during childhood on nest leaving. Using data from SHARE, we show empirically that individuals who grew up in a golden nest leave the parental home later and that education only partially mediates this effect. This relationship holds across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286841
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Intergenerational earnings mobility and preferences for redistribution
Siedler, Thomas; Sonnenberg, Bettina - 2012
This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...
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Estimating nonlinear intergenerational income mobility with correlation curves
Nilsson, Jan Olof William - 2018
A correlation curve is introduced as a tool to study the degree of intergenerational income mobility, i.e. how income …'s income with respect to parents' income (i.e. its sensitiveness to different dispersion among the generations) and the … studies and in this study labour earnings are compared to disposable income. The correlation between the parental income and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896785
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Estimating nonlinear intergenerational income mobility with correlation curves
Nilsson, Jan Olof William - 2019
A correlation curve is introduced as a tool to study the degree of intergenerational income mobility, i.e. how income …’s income with respect to parents’ income (i.e. its sensitiveness to different dispersion among the generations) and the … studies and in this study labour earnings are compared to disposable income. The correlation between the parental income and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958888
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Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China
Fan, Yi - 2019
This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced … in 1979. The intergenerational income elasticity increases from 0.390 for the 1970–1980 birth cohort to 0.442 for the … also explore how changes in intergenerational income persistence is correlated with market reforms, economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858483
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Rising Intergenerational Income Persistence in China
Fan, Yi - 2019
This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced … in 1979. The intergenerational income elasticity increases from 0.390 for the 1970–1980 birth cohort to 0.442 for the … also explore how changes in intergenerational income persistence is correlated with market reforms, economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858654
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Rising intergenerational income persistence in China
Fan, Yi; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2019
This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced … in 1979. The intergenerational income elasticity increases from 0.390 for the 1970-1980 birth cohort to 0.442 for the … also explore how changes in intergenerational income persistence is correlated with market reforms, economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139270