Is education the mechanism through which family background affects economic outcomes? A generalised approach to mediation analysis
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Mediation analysis; Intergenerational mobility; Equality of opportunity;All these keywords.
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- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
- C49 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Other
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
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