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Life Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Income and Wealth.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Life Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Income and Wealth./
Author:	Fu, Xuanyu.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	216 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-12B.
Subject:	Home economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28542373
ISBN:	9798515272142

Life Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Income and Wealth.
Fu, Xuanyu.

Life Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Income and Wealth. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 216 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation includes three essays in economic history and applied microeconomics. In the first chapter, I investigate the intergenerational effects of a negative shock in wealth for African Americans by examining the failure of the Freedman's Bank. I find that children of depositors were more likely to be literate than children of non-depositors after the bank failure. The positive literacy effect is explained by an increase in schooling and literacy for the depositors' children prior to the bank failure. I find that the bank was able to promote education for the depositors' children through its connection with a Christian educational organization, the American Missionary Association. While children from families who lost a higher proportion of wealth were less likely to attend school after the bank failure, the human capital gains which occurred prior to the bank failure outweigh and outlast the adverse effect of wealth loss. In the second chapter, I test whether the failure of the Freedman's Bank contributed to the mistrust and underutilization of financial institutions by African Americans today using present day survey data. I find that African Americans are less likely to be banked if they reside in a county with higher exposure to knowledge of the bank failure. In addition, for unbanked households, those who reside in a county with higher exposure to knowledge of the bank failure are more likely to report "mistrust" in bank as the primary reason to be unbanked. The results suggest that the collapse of the Freedman's Bank can partly explain persistent gaps in the utilization of financial services by African Americans. Finally, in the third chapter, I explore whether low-income individuals with a guaranteed income had a higher likelihood of occupation turnover using from a randomized experiment that occurred in the 1970s, the Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment. I find that guaranteed income treatment increased the probability of an occupation switch, where most of the individuals who switched were above the age of 35. From survey results, I find that occupation turnovers resulted in non-pecuniary gains for all occupation switchers. Overall, these results suggest that when relieved of financial pressure, a subset of low-income individuals were more likely to switch occupations. Those in the treatment group accrued more non-pecuniary gain simply because they switched occupations more often.

ISBN: 9798515272142Subjects--Topical Terms:

551902
Home economics.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Life cycle

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