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Autor/in | Gaviria, Alejandro |
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Titel | Intergenerational mobility, sibling inequality and borrowing constraints. |
Quelle | In: Economics of education review, 21 (2002) 4, S. 331-340Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Beigaben | Literaturangaben 18; Tabellen 8 |
Sprache | englisch; englische Zusammenfassung |
Dokumenttyp | online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0272-7757 |
DOI | 10.1016/S0272-7757(01)00031-0 |
Schlagwörter | Empirische Untersuchung; Bildungsniveau; Soziale Herkunft; Soziale Mobilität; Geschwister; Armut; Sozioökonomische Lage; Bildungsinvestition; Einkommen; Investition; USA |
Abstract | This paper studies differences in social mobility between rich and poor families. The paper shows that borrowing constraints retard social mobility among the poor by preventing poor parents from investing optimally in their children's human capital. This evidence contradicts several recent studies that argue that innate ability is the overriding determinant of socioeconomic performance in the United States. The paper also shows that sibling inequality appears to be independent of parental wealth, which in turn contradicts the predictions of various economic models of resource allocation within the family. (DIPF/Orig.) |
Anmerkungen | Analytical framework used: Becker, G.S., Tomes, N.: Human capital and the rise and fall of families, J. of Labour Economics 4(1986)3, S.1-S 39 |
Erfasst von | DIPF | Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main |
Update | 2003_(CD) |