Dear all,
Hope you will be able to join us for the seminar this Friday. I am hosting Professor Claudia Olivetti from Boston College. Her research largely focused on women and their roles in the labor market, wage differentials and institutions that led to an increased female participation in the labor force.
Here is the link to her Google Scholar page:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fTWwTJ0AAAAJ&hl=en
Kind regards,
Olga Shemyakina
From: byungcheolk@gmail.com [mailto:byungcheolk@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Byung-Cheol Kim
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2015 9:14 AM
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Subject: [econ-faculty] Georgia Tech ECON Seminar on Friday, Nov 13, 2015. 2:00-3:30PM Old CE Building Room G10
Dear All,
We kindly invite you to the upcoming seminar by Professor Claudia Olivetti (Boston College) on this Friday (11/13 2PM at Old CE G10). This seminar will be the last weekly SOE seminar on this semester (except the brown bag).
Professor Olivetti's main research interest is labor economics, more generally applied-microeconomics. She has published her papers in prestigious journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics. Her full CV is found at https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/cas_sites/economics/pdf/Faculty%20Vitaes/olivettiCV_July2015.pdf
Title: Three-Generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents
Abstract: 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 (2013) to explore four different channels of intergenerational mobility: between fathers sons and grandsons; fathers, sons and granddaughters; fathers, daughters and grandsons; and fathers, daughters, and granddaughters.
We document three main findings. First, there is evidence of a strong second-order autoregressive coefficient for the process of intergenerational transmission of 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 propose two alternative theoretical frameworks that can rationalize these findings.
Best regards,
BC
