IZA Discussion Papers

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3651

Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores

Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 138-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3646

The Role of Childhood Health for the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from Administrative Data

Martin Salm, Daniel Schunk

revised version published as 'The Relationship between Child Health, Developmental Gaps, and Parental Education: Evidence from Administrative Data' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (6), 1425-1449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3630

The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Helena Holmlund, Mikael Lindahl, Erik Plug

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2011, 49 (3), 615-651, revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3080

Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility: Comparing Sons of Foreign and Native Born Fathers

Christian Dustmann

Published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43(2), 299 - 324

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3072

Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents

Pedro Carneiro, Costas Meghir, Matthias Parey

revised version published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (S1), 123–160