Browsing Department of Economics by Author "Tominey, Emma"
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Insurance against Income Shocks, Parental Investments, and Child Development
Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Tominey, Emma (DP SAM;10/2024, Working paper, 2024-06-11)Faced with income shocks, households may be unable to smooth their consumption, because of limited insurance possibilities. Likewise, it may also be difficult to smooth investments in children. This could have large ... -
Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income
Carneiro, Pedro; Garcia, Italo Lopez; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma (Discussion paper;23/15, Working paper, 2015-10)We extend the standard intergenerational mobility literature by modelling individual outcomes as a function of the whole history of parental income, using data from Norway. We find that, conditional on permanent income, ... -
The Family Peer Effect on Mothers´ Labour Supply
Nicoletti, Cheti; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma (SAM;7/2016, Working paper, 2016-04-26)The well documented rise in female labour force participation in the last century has flattened in recent decades, but the proportion of mothers working full-time has been steadily increasing. In this paper we provide the ...