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Essays On Social Mobility And Distribution, Luis A. Monroy Gómez Franco
Essays On Social Mobility And Distribution, Luis A. Monroy Gómez Franco
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation consists of three chapters on the relationship between immutable characteristics of a person (also known as circumstances) and the intergenerational social mobility experienced by them, as well as their human capital accumulation. It pays particular attention to the role played by the economic resources of the household of origin in producing differences in the economic outcomes across persons.
In the first chapter, I show that the decomposition of intergenerational persistence indicators into their structural and positional components offers a clearer understanding of the determinants of heterogeneity in subnational mobility rates. The crucial element for the separate analysis of …
Essays On Human Capital And Inequality, Youngmin Park
Essays On Human Capital And Inequality, Youngmin Park
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This thesis conducts positive and normative analysis of inequality based on human capital theory. In Chapter 2, we document important differences in early child investments by family income and study four leading mechanisms thought to explain these gaps: intergenerational ability correlation, consumption value of investment, information frictions, and credit constraints. We evaluate whether these mechanisms are consistent with other stylized facts related to the marginal returns on investments and the effects of parental income on child investments and skills.
In Chapter 3, I study optimal higher education subsidies when parents’ willingness to pay for their children's education differs due to …
Three Essays On Inequality Of Opportunity And Intergenerational Mobility, Thinh Truong Pham
Three Essays On Inequality Of Opportunity And Intergenerational Mobility, Thinh Truong Pham
Senior Projects Fall 2015
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.