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New Directions in Measuring Intergenerational Mobility: Introduction 代际流动性测量的新方向:导论
IF 3.2 2区 经济学
Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-06-11 DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12607
Maia Güell, José V. Rodríguez Mora, Gary Solon
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引用次数: 15
Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations 代际财富流动和继承的作用:来自多代人的证据
IF 3.2 2区 经济学
Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-06-11 DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12535
Adrian Adermon, Mikael Lindahl, Daniel Waldenström
{"title":"Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations","authors":"Adrian Adermon,&nbsp;Mikael Lindahl,&nbsp;Daniel Waldenström","doi":"10.1111/ecoj.12535","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecoj.12535","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study estimates intergenerational wealth correlations across up to four generations and examines the degree to which the wealth association between parents and children can be explained by inheritances. Using a Swedish data set with newly hand-collected data on wealth and bequests, we find parent-child rank correlations of 0.3–0.4 and grandparent–grandchild rank correlations of 0.1–0.2. Bequests and gifts appear to be central in this process, accounting for at least half of the parent–child wealth correlation while earnings and education can account for only a quarter.</p>","PeriodicalId":48448,"journal":{"name":"Economic Journal","volume":"128 612","pages":"F482-F513"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ecoj.12535","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117293777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 136
What Do We Know So Far about Multigenerational Mobility? 到目前为止，我们对多代人的流动性了解多少?
IF 3.2 2区 经济学
Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-06-11 DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12495
Gary Solon
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引用次数: 115
Grandfathers Matter(ed): Occupational Mobility Across Three Generations in the US and Britain, 1850–1911 祖父的问题(编):美国和英国三代人的职业流动，1850-1911
IF 3.2 2区 经济学
Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-06-11 DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12590
Jason Long, Joseph Ferrie
{"title":"Grandfathers Matter(ed): Occupational Mobility Across Three Generations in the US and Britain, 1850–1911","authors":"Jason Long,&nbsp;Joseph Ferrie","doi":"10.1111/ecoj.12590","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecoj.12590","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nearly all intergenerational mobility studies focus on fathers and sons. The possibility that the process is more than simply two-generational (AR(1)) has been difficult to assess because of the lack of the necessary multi-generational data. We remedy this shortcoming with new data that links grandfathers, fathers and sons in Britain and the US between 1850 and 1910. We find that grandfathers mattered: even controlling for father's occupation, grandfather's occupation significantly influenced the occupation of the grandson. For both Britain and the US in this time period, therefore, assessments based on two-generation estimates significantly overstate the true amount of social mobility.</p>","PeriodicalId":48448,"journal":{"name":"Economic Journal","volume":"128 612","pages":"F422-F445"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2018-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ecoj.12590","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126550552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 53
Group Size and the Efficiency of Informal Risk Sharing 群体规模与非正式风险分担效率
IF 3.2 2区 经济学
Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-05-18 DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12565
Emla Fitzsimons, Bansi Malde, Marcos Vera-Hernández
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引用次数: 8
Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers 测量和改变控制:妇女赋权和有针对性的转移
IF 3.2 2区 经济学
Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-05-18 DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12517
Ingvild Almås, Alex Armand, Orazio Attanasio, Pedro Carneiro
{"title":"Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers","authors":"Ingvild Almås,&nbsp;Alex Armand,&nbsp;Orazio Attanasio,&nbsp;Pedro Carneiro","doi":"10.1111/ecoj.12517","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecoj.12517","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article uses a novel identification strategy to measure power in the household. Our strategy is to elicit women's willingness to pay to receive a cash transfer instead of their spouse receiving it. We selected participants from a sample of women who had already participated in a policy intervention in Macedonia offering poor households cash transfers conditional on having their children attending secondary school. The programme randomised transfers at the municipality level to either household heads (generally a male) or mothers. We show that women who were offered the transfer on average have stronger measured empowerment. Here, IV estimation confirms this result.</p>","PeriodicalId":48448,"journal":{"name":"Economic Journal","volume":"128 612","pages":"F609-F639"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2018-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ecoj.12517","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122410336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 95
Learning, Hygiene and Traditional Medicine 学习、卫生和传统医学
IF 3.2 2区 经济学
Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-05-18 DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12549
Daniel Bennett, Asjad Naqvi, Wolf-Peter Schmidt
{"title":"Learning, Hygiene and Traditional Medicine","authors":"Daniel Bennett,&nbsp;Asjad Naqvi,&nbsp;Wolf-Peter Schmidt","doi":"10.1111/ecoj.12549","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecoj.12549","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Information provision is only an effective behaviour-change strategy if the information is credible. A novel programme augments conventional hygiene instruction by showing participants everyday microbes under a microscope. Through a randomised evaluation in Pakistan, we show that this programme leads to meaningful hygiene and health improvements, while instruction alone does not. Traditional medicine, which offers an alternative disease model, may undermine learning by strengthening prior beliefs about hygiene. We show that believers in traditional medicine have smaller impacts, suggesting that traditional and modern medical beliefs are substitutes and that traditional medicine may exacerbate the infectious disease burden in this context.</p>","PeriodicalId":48448,"journal":{"name":"Economic Journal","volume":"128 612","pages":"F545-F574"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2018-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ecoj.12549","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129470898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 25
Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Causal Effects in Macroeconomics Using External Instruments 利用外部工具识别和估计宏观经济学中的动态因果效应
IF 3.2 2区 经济学
Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12593
James H. Stock, Mark W. Watson
{"title":"Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Causal Effects in Macroeconomics Using External Instruments","authors":"James H. Stock,&nbsp;Mark W. Watson","doi":"10.1111/ecoj.12593","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecoj.12593","url":null,"abstract":"<p>External sources of as-if randomness — that is, external instruments — can be used to identify the dynamic causal effects of macroeconomic shocks. One method is a one-step instrumental variables regression (local projections – IV); a more efficient two-step method involves a vector autoregression. We show that, under a restrictive instrument validity condition, the one-step method is valid even if the vector autoregression is not invertible, so comparing the two estimates provides a test of invertibility. If, however, lagged endogenous variables are needed as control variables in the one-step method, then the conditions for validity of the two methods are the same.</p>","PeriodicalId":48448,"journal":{"name":"Economic Journal","volume":"128 610","pages":"917-948"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2018-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ecoj.12593","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132203987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 362
Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance 小额信贷市场结构与借款人福利
IF 3.2 2区 经济学
Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12591
Jonathan de Quidt, Thiemo Fetzer, Maitreesh Ghatak
{"title":"Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance","authors":"Jonathan de Quidt,&nbsp;Thiemo Fetzer,&nbsp;Maitreesh Ghatak","doi":"10.1111/ecoj.12591","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ecoj.12591","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Motivated by recent controversies surrounding the role of commercial lenders in microfinance, and calls for regulation of the sector, we analyse borrower welfare under different market structures, considering a benevolent non-profit lender, a for-profit monopolist and a competitive credit market. To understand the magnitude of the effects analysed, we simulate the model with parameters estimated from the MIX Market database. Our results suggest that market power can have severe implications for borrower welfare, while despite possible enforcement externalities competition typically delivers similar borrower welfare to non-profit lending.</p>","PeriodicalId":48448,"journal":{"name":"Economic Journal","volume":"128 610","pages":"1019-1046"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2018-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ecoj.12591","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114149601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 52
Lost in the Storm: The Academic Collaborations That Went Missing in Hurricane ISSAC 迷失在风暴中:在ISSAC飓风中失踪的学术合作
IF 3.2 2区 经济学
Economic Journal Pub Date : 2018-05-07 DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12566
Raquel Campos, Fernanda Leon, Ben McQuillin
{"title":"Lost in the Storm: The Academic Collaborations That Went Missing in Hurricane ISSAC","authors":"Raquel Campos,&nbsp;Fernanda Leon,&nbsp;Ben McQuillin","doi":"10.1111/ecoj.12566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12566","url":null,"abstract":"<p>By exploiting the cancellation of the 2012 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, we investigate the role of conferences in facilitating academic collaboration. We assembled data sets comprising 17,467 academics, and in difference-in-differences analysis we find that the conference cancellation led to a decrease in individuals’ likelihood of co-authoring an article with another attendant by 16%. Moreover, collaborations formed among attendants of (occurring) conferences are associated with more successful co-publications: an effect which is sharpest for teams that are new or non-collocated. Conferences seem to de-cluster the co-authorship network. Altogether, our findings demonstrate the importance of conferences in scientific production.</p>","PeriodicalId":48448,"journal":{"name":"Economic Journal","volume":"128 610","pages":"995-1018"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2018-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/ecoj.12566","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137648862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 38
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