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Inequality in Personality Over the Life Cycle

Gensowski, Miriam - 2020

We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet … personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education …

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Inequality in Personality over the Life Cycle

Gensowski, Miriam - 2020

We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet … on all personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833576

Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....

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Opportunity and inequality across generations

Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020

We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the … nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …

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Seeing stereotypes

Baldazzi, Elisa; Biroli, Pietro; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2025

Reliance on stereotypes is a persistent feature of human decision-making and has been extensively documented in educational setting, where it can shape students' confidence, performance, and long-term human capital accumulation. While effective techniques exist to mitigate these negative...

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Seeing stereotypes

Baldazzi, Elisa; Biroli, Pietro; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2025

Reliance on stereotypes is a persistent feature of human decision-making and has been extensively documented in educational settings, where it can shape students’ confidence, performance, and long-term human capital accumulation. While effective techniques exist to mitigate these negative...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015330417

Does inequality reduce mobility? : the Great Gatsby Curve and its mechanisms

Brandén, Gunnar - 2019

men who grew up in regions or periods with high levels of income inequality experienced less intergenerational mobility as …

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Heterogenous latent factor models using horizontal kinship

Colagrossi, Marco; Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; … - 2024

We reconstruct the genealogical tree of all individuals ever appearing in Dutch municipalities records since 1995. Using microdata from tax authorities, we compute a measure of their permanent earnings and assess the degree to which the intergenerational transmission process is heterogeneous....

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Lifetime inequality and redistribution

Brewer, Mike; Dias, Mónica Costa; Shaw, Jonathan - 2012

In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on … annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime … perspective? To answer to these questions it is crucial to relate lifetime and annual inequality and determine the main building …

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Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

to cognitive ability are generally consistent across family background groups, personality traits have very different …

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