IZA Workshop: Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Outcomes: Identifying the Underlying Mechanism

Friday, October 05:

09:00	-	09:15		Official Welcome and Announcements
09:15	-	10:15		Anders Björklund (SOFI, Stockholm University and IZA*))
				"Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Cohorts born 1932-1968"
10:15	-	10:30		Coffee/Tea Break
10:30	-	11:20		Miles Corak (CUNY Graduate Center and IZA*)), Abdurrahman Aydemir (Sabanci University), Wen-Hao Chen (Statistics Canada)
				"Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants"
11:20	-	12:10		Nathan D. Grawe (Carleton College*))
				"Primary and Secondary School Class Size and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility"
12:10	-	13:00		Matthew J. Lindquist (SOFI, Stockholm University*)), Randi Hjalmarsson (University of Maryland)
				"Like Godfather, Like Son: Explaining the Intergenerational Nature of Crime"
13:00	-	14:00		Lunch
14:00	-	14:50		Bhashkar Mazumder (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago*)), Debopam Bhattacharya (Dartmouth College)
				"Nonparametric Analysis of Intergenerational Income Mobility with Application to the United States"
14:50	-	15:40		Emilia Del Bono (ISER, University of Essex and IZA*)), John Ermisch (University of Essex and IZA), Marco Francesconi (University of Essex and IZA)
				"The Impacts of Maternal Behaviour on Birthweight"
15:40	-	16:00		Coffee/Tea Break
16:00	-	16:50		Uwe Sunde (University of Munich and IZA*)), Thomas Dohmen (IZA), Armin Falk (University of Bonn and IZA), David Huffman (IZA)
				"Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes"
16:50	-	17:40		Fabrizio Zilibotti (Yale University*)), Matthias Döpke (University of California, Los Angeles and IZA)
				"Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism"
19:30				Conference Dinner

Saturday, October 06:

09:00	-	09:50		Øivind Anti Nilsen (Norwegian School of Economics and IZA*)), Kjell Vaage (University of Bergen), Arild Aakvik (University of Bergen), Karl Åge Jacobsen (Statistics Norway)
				"Sources of Measurement Errors in Earnings Data: New Estimates of Intergenerational Elasticities"
09:50	-	10:40		Stephen Machin (London School of Economics and IZA*)), Jo Blanden (London School of Economics)
				"Early Age Test Scores and Recent Changes in Intergenerational Mobility"
10:40	-	11:00		Coffee/Tea Break
11:00	-	11:50		Oddbjørn Raaum (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research and IZA*)), Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Eva Ôsterbacka, Markus Jäntti, Tor Eriksson, Robin Naylor
				"Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries"
11:50	-	12:40		Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam and IZA*)), Monique de Haan (University of Amsterdam)
				"Estimates of the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling using censored and uncensored Samples"
12:40				Lunch