04 de Septiembre, 2016
Seminario Académico: “Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents”

Fecha de inicio: 07 de Septiembre, 2016, 13:00 hrs.

Fecha de término: 07 de Septiembre, 2016, 14:00 hrs.

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El Departamento de Economía de la Universidad de Chile tiene el agrado de invitar a usted a un nuevo Seminario Académico:

 

Título: “Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents”

 

Autores: Claudia Olivetti (Boston College and NBER), M. Daniele Paserman (Boston University and NBER), Laura Salisbury (York University and NBER)

 

Presenta: M. Daniele Paserman

 

Abstract

 

This paper estimates intergenerational elasticities across three generations in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We extend the methodology in Olivetti and Paserman (2015) to explore the role of maternal and paternal grandfathers for the transmission of economic status to grandsons and granddaughters. We document three main findings. First, grandfathers matter for income transmission, above and beyond their eect on fathers’ income. Second, the socio-economic status of grandsons is influenced more strongly by paternal grandfathers than by maternal grandfathers. Third, maternal grandfathers are more important for granddaughters than for grandsons, while the opposite is true for paternal grandfathers. We present a model of multi-trait matching and inheritance that can rationalize these findings..

 

El  Seminario  se realizará el miércoles 07 de septiembre de 13:00 a 14:00 hrs, en  la Sala P-307 Tercer Piso del edificio Placa de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios de la Universidad de Chile, ubicada en Diagonal Paraguay 257.

 

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