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152 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6139
Decline in Social Mobility: Unfulfilled Aspirations among Egypt's Educated Youth
Christine Binzel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5990
Following in Your Father's Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons
Vikesh Amin, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5946
Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data
Vikesh Amin, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth
published as 'The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 47, 100–117
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5697
Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Life-Cycle Bias in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation
Martin Nybom, Jan Stuhler
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 239-268
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5593
The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark
Paul Bingley, Miles Corak, Niels C. Westergård-Nielsen
published in: John Ermisch, Markus Jantti, and Timothy Smeeding (editors). From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5487
Does Quality Time Produce Quality Children? Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital Using Parental Deaths
Eric D. Gould, Avi Simhon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5369
Why Children of College Graduates Outperform their Schoolmates: A Study of Cousins and Adoptees
Torbjørn Haegeland, Lars Kirkeboen, Oddbjørn Raaum, Kjell G. Salvanes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5245
Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature
Jan Stuhler
substantially revised version appeared as IZA DP No. 5697
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5002
Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies
Anders Björklund, Kjell G. Salvanes
revised version published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin, and L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook in Economics of Education, Vol. 3, North Holland: 2010, pp. 201-247
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4876
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers
Miles Corak, Patrizio Piraino
revised version published as: 'The Inheritance of Employers and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility.' in: Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz (editors). Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016, 1 - 34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4819
The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers
Miles Corak, Patrizio Piraino
slightly revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (1), 37-68
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4814
Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada
Miles Corak, Lori Curtis, Shelley Phipps
published in: Timothy M. Smeeding et al. (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2011. Parts also published (Miles Corak only) as 'Chasing the Same Dream, Climbing Different Ladders'. Washington: PEW Charitable Trusts, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4811
Intergenerational Income Mobility in Urban China
Cathy Honge Gong, Andrew Leigh, Xin Meng
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (3), 481-503
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4767
The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility
Andrea Ichino, Loukas Karabarbounis, Enrico Moretti
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49 (1), 47-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4677
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany: Moving with Natives or Stuck in their Neighborhoods?
Mutlu Yuksel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4305
IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?
Anders Björklund, Karin Hederos Eriksson, Markus Jäntti
published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 2
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3967
Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second Moments
Lídia Farré, Roger Klein, Francis Vella
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (5), 676–690
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3759
Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants
Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Wen-Hao Chen, Miles Corak
published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2013, 39 (S1), S107-S122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3735
What More Than Parental Income? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents
Anders Björklund, Lena Lindahl, Matthew J. Lindquist
revised version published as 'What More Than Parental Income, Education and Occupation? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 102
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3709
Estimates of Intergenerational Elasticities Based on Lifetime Earnings
Øivind Anti Nilsen, Kjell Vaage, Arild Aakvik, Karl Jacobsen
published as 'Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Revisited: Estimates Based on Lifetime Earnings' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 1 - 23
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