Essays about: "intergenerational transmission of inequality"
Found 5 essays containing the words intergenerational transmission of inequality.
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1. A Hard Pill to Swallow? Subsidized Contraceptives and Women's Intergenerational Mobility in a Difference-in-Differences Framework
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : The theory and methods of intergenerational mobility attempt to explain the transmission of socioeconomic status between family members of different generations. In this thesis, we study the causal effect of access to contraceptives on the intergenerational mobility of women. READ MORE
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2. Trends of intergenerational transmission of education. Evidence from Colombia
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Inequalities among individuals can arise from different amounts of efforts and abilities or from circumstances that go beyond the control of the individual; opposite ethical and economical conclusions arise from these differences but the literature on inequality has often overlooked the issue. This thesis focuses on the concept of inequality of opportunity in its acceptation of intergenerational transmission of education, studying how parents’ and children’s education are related. READ MORE
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3. Multidimensional Intergenerational Inequality: Resource and Gender Specificity : Intergenerational transmission of inequality in education, social class, and income attainment using a sibling correlations approach
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionenAbstract : This study focuses on intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic resources in multiple dimensions and decomposes the influence of parents’ education, social class, and income in relation to the same outcomes for children as well as the unique impact of mothers and fathers on sons and daughters. In order to minimize measurement error in parental characteristics and life course bias for children, high quality Swedish administrative register data (spanning over 40 years) is utilized. READ MORE
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4. Revealing distributional transmission channels of monetary policy: Evidence from U.S. household-level data
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : Increasing inequality and a slow recovery have prompted interests in the redistributional effects of monetary policy. In order to improve understanding of transmission channels and to enhance the effectiveness of monetary policy, this thesis sets out to explore heterogeneous consumption responses to monetary policy shocks. To this end, U.S. READ MORE
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5. Conditional Cash Transfers in the African Context: An Explorative Study on the Impacts of CCTs in Burkina Faso
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : The proliferation of poverty and global inequality between and within the countries has resulted in an emerging consensus among the actors in the field of international development on the importance of social policies in the process of development. One type of social policy measures employed to tackle poverty is Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT). READ MORE
