How Large are the Effects from Changes in Family Environment? A Study of Korean American Adoptees

By Bruce I. Sacerdote. 2007

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Subfields: Accounting, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Twin Picks: Disentangling the Determinants of Risk-Taking in Household Portfolios (2013, unknown): “[75] Sacerdote, Bruce, 2007, How large are the effects from changes in family environment? A study of Korean American adoptees, Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, 119-157.”
What motivates entrepreneurial entry under economic inequality? The role of human and financial capital (2015, unknown): “Many end up discouraged and wondering if their fate has been dictated by a lack of ‘equality of opportunity’ (Corak, 2013), genetic heritability (Benjamin et al., 2012; Sacerdote, 2007) or ‘birth and fortune’ (Smith, 1790).”
Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players* (2016, background): “consistent with the findings from a rigorous study of Korean-born adoptees who were assigned to US families using a plausibly random mechanism (Sacerdote 2007), and the structural literature on child development (Boca, Flinn, and Wiswall 2014, Heckman and Mosso 2014).”
Children's schooling and parents' behavior: Evidence from the Head Start Impact Study (2013, background): “…inputs may have important effects on child outcomes (e.g. Becker and Tomes 1976; Becker 1981; Becker and Tomes 1986; Todd and Wolpin 2003; Sacerdote 2007).2 In analyzing the return to schooling, it is possible to distinguish the direct impact that schooling programs have on children from…”
Genetic Variation in Preferences for Giving and Risk Taking (2009, background): “Later papers in this procession, based on either twins or adoptees, include Behrman and Taubman (1989), Plug and Vijverberg (2003), Björklund, Lindahl and Plug (2006), Björklund, Jäntti and Solon (2007) and Sacerdote (2002, 2007).”
Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children? (2020, unknown): “the review in Sacerdote, 2010). Taken together, our findings provide new insights into the role of family background in determining children’s wealth accumulation and investor behavior as adults. At the same time, they raise a number of questions such as: What are the mechanisms through which parent”