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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"INTERGENERATIONAL CORRELATION"”.
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LOSS AVERSION AND THE INTERGENERATIONAL CORRELATION OF INCOME
Recent estimates of the intergenerational correlation of income in the United States are centered around 0.6. Existing empirical work is only able to explain about half of this correlation. The first chapter of this dissertation provides a behavioral explanation that accounts for almost half of the …
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Three essays on social networks and entrepreneurship
… inconsistent with arguments asserting that the intergenerational correlation is a result of: the transmission of human capital or financial capital; the expectation of inheriting a business; a heightened awareness of the viability of business ownership; or preferences for having lots of money. …
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INTERGENERATIONAL EARNINGS CORRELATIONS IN INDONESIA
… will analyze these questions by quantifying the correlations in earnings between parents and their adult children in Indonesia. By measuring the intergenerational earnings correlation, or how correlated children’s earnings are to that of their parent’s earnings, we can quantify how important the …
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INTERGENERATIONAL EARNINGS CORRELATIONS IN INDONESIA
… will analyze these questions by quantifying the correlations in earnings between parents and their adult children in Indonesia. By measuring the intergenerational earnings correlation, or how correlated children’s earnings are to that of their parent’s earnings, we can quantify how important the …
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Intergenerational mobility in South Africa: how much has South Africa changed since the early 1990s?
… in educational and earnings inequality to the intergenerational dimension. The study shows that while intergenerational education mobility has increased considerably, earnings persistence has remained high and almost unchanged between the two periods. Intergenerational relative education …
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Three Essays in Population Economics
… with Scott Abrahams, focuses on whether intergenerational correlation in socioeconomic outcomes be explained by transmission of personality traits across generations of the family. We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) and the Add …