Train to Opportunity: the Effect of Infrastructure on Intergenerational Mobility

Can transport infrastructure promote intergenerational mobility? This paper estimates the causal impact of the railroad network on intergenerational occupation mobility in nineteenth century England andWales.We create a new dataset of father and son pairs by linking individuals across the 100% censu...

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Autores:
Costas-Fernández, Julián
Guerra, José-Alberto
Mohnen Myra
Tipo de recurso:
Work document
Fecha de publicación:
2020
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:
Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/48003
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/1992/48003
Palabra clave:
Intergenerational mobility
Infrastructure
Spatial mobility
H54, J62, N13
Rights
openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/