Sökning: "Markus Jäntti"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden Markus Jäntti.

  1. 1. Essays on the Transmission of Human Capital and the Impact of Technological Change

    Författare :Adrian Adermon; Mikael Lindahl; Magnus Gustavsson; Markus Jäntti; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; intergenerational mobility; sibling correlations; natural experiment; copyright; music; movies; file sharing; piracy; inequality; job polarization; task-biased technological change; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Essay 1: If grandparents have an independent impact on their grandchildren's schooling, intergenerational correlations estimated using two generations will underestimate the true level of intergenerational persistence in education. Recent research has found such multi-generational effects, but there is still no consensus on whether these estimates are due to a direct impact of grandparents on their grandchildren, or if they arise because of measurement error or model misspecification. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Essays on the Determinants and Measurement of Subjective Well-Being

    Författare :Martin Berlin; Markus Jäntti; Andrew Clark; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; subjective well-being; happiness; life satisfaction; affect; income; cash margin; time use; measurement error; ordinal response models; cardinality; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays in economics, all concerned with different aspects of subjective well-being. The abstracts of the four studies are as follows.Beyond Income: The Importance for Life Satisfaction of Having Access to a Cash Margin. LÄS MER

  4. 3. 1. On mandatory activation of welfare receivers. 2. Is welfare dependency inherited? Estimating the causal welfare transmission effects using Swedish sibling data

    Författare :Kajsa Hanspers; Eva Mörk; Anders Forslund; Markus Jäntti; Uppsala universitet; []
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  5. 4. Essays on intergenerational income mobility, geographical mobility, and education

    Författare :Stefanie Heidrich; Thomas Aronsson; David Granlund; Magnus Wikström; Markus Jäntti; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; optimal taxation; social norms; intergenerational mobility; regional analysis; multilevel model; child human capital development; moving costs; simulation of income paths; lifetime income; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of an introductory part and the following four self-contained papers:In Paper [I] we analyze the implications of social identity and self-categorization for optimal redistributive income taxation. A two-type model is supplemented by an assumption that individuals select themselves into social categories, in which norms are formed and education effort choices partly depend on these norms. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Essays on Measurement Error and Nonresponse

    Författare :Fredrik Johansson; Anders Klevmarken; Per Johansson; Markus Jäntti; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Essay 1 deals with measurement errors. Matching survey data with administrative records provides unique opportunities to evaluate the statistical properties of respondents' answers. This paper focuses primarily on home ownership and wealth variables. LÄS MER