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Long-Term Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital

An Empirical Analysis of Four Generations

Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren
Journal of Human Resources, January 2015, 50 (1) 1-33; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.50.1.1
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vol. 50 no. 1 1-33
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.50.1.1
Published By 
University of Wisconsin Press
Print ISSN 
0022-166X
Online ISSN 
1548-8004
History 
  • Received December 1, 2012
  • Accepted January 1, 2014
  • Published online February 5, 2015.
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© 2015 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

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  1. Mikael Lindahl,
  2. Mårten Palme,
  3. Sofia Sandgren Massih and
  4. Anna Sjögren
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Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih, Anna Sjögren
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Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih, Anna Sjögren
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    • I. Introduction
    • II. Measuring Long-Term Intergenerational Mobility
    • III. Data and Descriptive Statistics
    • IV. Results
    • V. Why Do We Find Evidence of Such High Long-Run Intergenerational Persistence?
    • VI. Conclusions
    • Appendix 1 The City of Malmö
    • Appendix 2 How Representative is the Malmö Data?
    • Appendix 3 Gender and Intergenerational Transmission
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