Browsing by Subject "Intergenerational mobility"

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      Robust determinants of intergenerational mobility in the land of opportunity 

      Kourtellos, Andros; Marr, Christa; Tan, Chih Ming (2016)
      This paper revisits the influential work by Chetty et al. (2014) who attempt to explain the variation in intergenerational mobility across commuter zones in the US (i.e., spatial mobility) using nine classes of variables. ...
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      Status Traps 

      Durlauf, Steven N.; Kourtellos, Andros; Tan, Chih Ming (2017)
      In this article, we explore nonlinearities in the intergenerational mobility process using threshold regression models. We uncover evidence of threshold effects in children's outcomes based on parental education and cognitive ...