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Economics & Econometrics

Job Market Paper: No Kid is an Island: Intergenerational Mobility and Peer Effects
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Economic inequalities persist from one generation to the next. To what extent is this due to children's social interactions replicating parental disparities? While existing research documents parental investments and local economic conditions as crucial, this paper studies the role of peer exposure for social mobility. Exploiting within school across cohort exogenous variation in schoolmates' parental background among Danish high school students, I show that a $1 increase in average schoolmates' parental earnings results in a $0.08 increase in adult earnings. This effect is as large as 42% of the parent-child correlation in earnings. I find that former schoolmates are connected on labor market networks: as their career advances, they open doors to higher paying firms and provide more attractive outside options to their peers.

Awards:

2024 IEE Best Teaching Assistant Award

References:

Professor Giacomo de Giorgi
Professor (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of California, Berkeley)
ProfessorÌýMichele Pellizzari
Professor Frédéric Robert-NicoudÌý

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Fulvio SilvyÌýÌý(°ä³Ü°ù°ù±ð²Ô³Ù±ô²â:ÌýPh.D. Student and Teaching Assistant,ÌýInstitute of Economics and Econometrics, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)

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Job Market Paper:ÌýProtection for Sale without Aggregation Bias
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Estimates of Grossman and Helpman (1994) "Protection For Sale" (PFS) model yield unrealistically high estimates of the weight governments put on social welfare relative to lobbying contributions, with estimates of the former often being more than ten times larger than the latter. We argue this is due to the level of aggregation at which the model has been estimated so far. While protection is determined at the tariff line level, production data is only available at the industry level. Using a new production dataset at the tariff level, our estimates confirm the presence of aggregation bias when estimating the PFS model at the industry level. At the tariff line level, the average weight on social welfare in a sample of 146 countries declines by 80 percent.

References:
ProfessorÌýMonika Mrázová
ProfessorÌýCéline Carrère
ProfessorÌýMarcelo Olarreaga
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