Sentence examples for intergenerational correlation from inspiring English sources
Perhaps the only legitimate use of the intergenerational correlation in income is to characterize economic mobility.
"The relative constancy of the intergenerational correlation of underlying social status across very different social environments in England from 1800 to 2012 suggests that it stems from the nature of inheritance of characteristics within families," says Gregory Clark of the University of California.
There are several methodological problems related to the estimation of intergenerational correlation in labor market outcomes.
Specification (2) shows the result when the within-group intergenerational correlation is included as an explanatory variable.
Finally, let us mention that the years of schooling in the US display an intergenerational correlation of 0.46.
To measure the transition of human capital between generations, we use the results obtained from intergenerational correlation in labor earnings.
But America and Britain, which follow the Anglo-Saxon model, have the highest intergenerational correlations between the social status of fathers and sons; the lowest are found in egalitarian Norway and Denmark.
However the transmission mechanism behind such intergenerational correlations has never been made clear.
The choice of Mexican data is primarily motivated by the importance of high intergenerational correlations in education in Latin America.
This paper aims at quantifying the relative importance of different transmission channels generating the high levels of intergenerational correlations in education, especially in Latin America.
Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) show that intergenerational correlations between mother's and children's education might be biased when such system aspects are not considered.
