Claudia Olivetti, M. Daniele Paserman y Laura Salisbury publicaron Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents. Ellos lo resumen "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 effect 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."
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