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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Intergenerational Mobility"”.
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ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF IMMIGRATION AND INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY
… impact of immigration and the determinants of intergenerational mobility, many important questions remain unanswered. Taking advantage of recently available large-scale administrative, household, and firm data, as well as latest developments in causal inference techniques, this dissertation …
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Low-income homeownership for intergenerational mobility - the role of intermediaries in risk mitigation
Homeownership is an important marker of achievement and personal wealth for most Americans. It provides a sense of stability and is an essential conduit through which families access opportunity in the form of schools, jobs, urban services, and communities (Rohe et al., 2001). For low-income and …
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Standing on the shoulders of birth intergenerational mobility, inequality, and pro-social preferences
… comprehensive description of the persistence of intergenerationally transmitted preferences that contribute to the deterministic nature of accidents of birth. Secondly, the effects of dyadic and multigenerational (im)mobility on voluntary pro-social behaviour to mitigate the consequences of birth …
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Intergenerational mobility in South Africa: how much has South Africa changed since the early 1990s?
… surveys enables for an examination of changes in mobility during the first 25 years of democracy. The study contributes to the South African literature on inequality by enriching and extending the cross-sectional empirical evidence on trends in educational and earnings inequality to the …
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A Study of College Dropouts and Graduates Ten Years After Matriculation, With Special Reference to Social Origins and Intergenerational Mobility
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SITUS: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF NETWORK CONNECTIONS ON STRATIFICATION USING HISTORICAL MATERIALS (NEW HAMPSHIRE)
… of network connections within occupations on intergenerational mobility. Defining situs as the network aspect of an occupation, encompassing both itself and all occupations connected to it through effective networks, the situs of all occupations in late nineteenth-century Portsmouth, New …
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Intergenerational and Occupational Mobility
… The first chapter provides an analysis of intergenerational mobility across countries, across cohorts and over the income distribution. It compares the patterns of intergenerational income mobility between fathers and sons in Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States. Among …
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Human Capital Investment and Employment in Iran: The Importance of Urban-Rural Distinctions
… education, which suggest possible existence of intergenerational mobility. Secondly, in rural areas maternal education is not significantly related to determining the decision to spend on education, the amount spent, and the proportion of household expenditure allocated, which suggest possible …
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Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa
… paper has used the NIDS dataset to measure the intergenerational mobility of education, over a ten-year period in South Africa. The research considers both father-son and motherdaughter pairs over the last ten years and yields interesting results, displaying a clear increase in educational …
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Cu' nesci, arrinesci? Mobilità sociale e mobilità geografica dei migranti interni italiani
… The goal is to understand if geographical mobility corresponds to social mobility, if geographical mobility is a channel through which to ensure greater social mobility, and whether migration reduces inequalities both of distributive and of relational order. I use the social mobility …
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Essays on Social Mobility and Distribution
… a person (also known as circumstances) and the intergenerational social mobility experienced by them, as well as their human capital accumulation. It pays particular attention to the role played by the economic resources of the household of origin in producing differences in the economic …
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ESSAYS ON GLOBALIZATION, LABOR MARKET, AND PRODUCTIVITY
… the impact of a large export shock on intergenerational mobility in Vietnam. We use eight rounds of Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys (VHLSSs) spanning over almost two decades to measure intergenerational mobility based on education levels of fathers and sons within households. …
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Agricultural Technologies and Economic Development: Three Essays on Technology Adoption and Inequality
… of agricultural technologies in Ecuador and intergenerational mobility in the United States. The first essay entitled 'Does IPM Have Staying Power? Revisiting a Potato-producing Area Years After Formal Training Ended' examines (Integrated Pest Management) IPM spread and adoption several years …
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Three essays on inequality
… to offset lack of opportunities and increase intergenerational mobility. In an overlapping generations model, parents choose the type of child education, public or private school, and young agents choose to become unskilled workers or attend a university and become skilled workers. If …
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Education and Meritocracy in China: The Role of Degrees in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality
… social inequality and declining social mobility, Chinese people exhibit a remarkable level of acceptance and optimism in the face of glaring disparities. This is largely because they hold an unwavering belief in education-based meritocracy, believing that socioeconomic success is largely …
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Understanding the Influence of the Father Roles in Contemporary Chinese Two-Parent Families on Young People’s Educational Experiences
… explains the impact of fathers’ involvement on intergenerational mobility and educational inequality from a life-course perspective, which provides new theoretical insights and empirical evidence for understanding contemporary Chinese family education practices. This study employs an …
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Essays on Labour Market in Developing Countries
… market. The remaining two chapters look into the intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status in South Africa and China. Chapter 3, Returns to Education, Marital Sorting and Family Background in South Africa joint with Patrizio Piraino, applies the model of Lam (1993, JPE) which …
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Alternative explanations of social mobility and political behavior
… of the literature on political behavior of intergenerationally mobile Americans suggests that mobile individuals, as aggregates, take on an intermediate political position between manual and non-manual stable groups. This finding has been interpreted as an indication of an acculturation or …
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Essays on Inequality in Cities
… system—on inequality across groups and the intergenerational outcomes of children. In my primary dissertation project described in chapters one and two, I quantify how interstate road infrastructure construction during the 1960s increased racial inequality in American cities. As a mechanism …
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Essays on Human Capital and Inequality
… mechanisms thought to explain these gaps: intergenerational ability correlation, consumption value of investment, information frictions, and credit constraints. We evaluate whether these mechanisms are consistent with other stylized facts related to the marginal returns on investments and …
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