Countercyclical school attainment and intergenerational mobility

Inequality of Conditions and Intergenerational Mobility: Changing Patterns of Educational Attainment in the United States

In the 1980s and 1990s, most advanced industrialized countries experienced substantial increases in inequality, as measured by labor market earnings, total family income, and wealth (see Blau and Kahn 2002; Freeman and Katz 1995). In some countries, such as the United States, absolute levels of labor market inequality are now as high as they were prior to World War II (see Katz and Autor 1999)....

Education Systems and Intergenerational Mobility

Genetic Influence on Intergenerational Educational Attainment

Using twin (6,105 twin pairs) and genomic (5,825 unrelated individuals taken from the twin sample) analyses, we tested for genetic influences on the parent-offspring correspondence in educational attainment. Genetics accounted for nearly half of the variance in intergenerational educational attainment. A genomewide polygenic score (GPS) for years of education was also associated with intergener...

Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility*

This paper analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. I assume that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic environment in which parents make their investments, or "ethnic capital." The empirical evidence reveals that t...

Intergenerational mobility in Korea

This study investigates intergenerational earnings mobility in Korea for sons born between 1958 and 1973 and compares Korea’s mobility to that of other nations. It uses data from the Korea Labor and Income Panel Study and the Household Income and Expenditure Survey conducted by the Korean National Statistics Bureau. Since no single Korean dataset includes information on both sons’ and their fat...