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Title: Intergenerational Mobility Across Three Generations in the United States from 1880-1920

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: This thesis studies the transmission of human capital across generations. Intergenerational mobility explains the link between parent and child outcomes and is analyzed in this study using the human capital transmission models of Becker and Tomes (1986, 1979) and Solon (2012); and the child labor and school attendance model of Orazem and Funnarsson (2004). Data for this study comes from the IPUMS Linked Representative Sample years 1880-190 where school attendance and occupation were analyzed for the primary linked male as well as their father, mother spouse, and children. Analysis of the data suggests significant determinants of a child attending school are the fathers level of human capital, where the child lives, nativity of the child, and nativity of the parent. Significant determinants of the primary linked males occupational income score are the fathers occupational income score, school attendance, where the male lives, the males nativity, as well as the parents nativity.

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Authors: Schrubey, Amber L.

Institution: Clemson University

Department: Department of Economics

Advisor: Curtis Simon

Degree: Master of Arts

Publisher Location: Clemson, SC

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

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