Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa
利用南非年轻人纵向数据，研究发现父亲作为求职网络对儿子（而非女儿）的就业有显著正向影响，可能使儿子就业率提高三分之一，而母亲作用不显著。
This paper examines the importance of network-based intergenerational correlations in South Africa. I use longitudinal data on young South Africans to examine the covariance of children's employment with the usefulness of parents in their job search. I find that fathers serve as useful network connections to their sons (not daughters), and that mothers do not seem to be useful network connections. The father-son effect is robust to alternate explanations of specific human capital and correlated networks. The size of this effect is large. Present fathers' utility as network connections may be responsible for a one-third increase in their sons' employment rates.