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Refugees, intergenerational trauma, child death, abusive family
Also just finished "The Best We Could Do" by Thi Bui, which is the second memoir I've stumbled upon recently that deals with the Vietnamese exodus after the end of the war (House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russel is the other one, which is written in verse, not illustrated). Bui traces more of the political landscape and history of Vietnam through the stories of both of her parents, and also unpacks a lot of intergenerational trauma, but has less focus on the boat trip out and refugee camp experience, presumably because hers were easier than Russel's.
My thoughts after reading this return repeatedly to all of the impacts that patriarchy and toxic masculinity had on her father, from setting up his father and grandfather to be abusive towards him and the women in their lives, to pushing him deep into depression when he feels unable to fulfill the role of a protective husband, ironically leaving his wife to pick up the slack and ultimately ruining their relationship, to how it teaches him to despise and shirk the caregiver role he's left with, ultimately passing on some measure of trauma to his children. For sure war, abusive family, and child death can happen in the absence of patriarchy and those are in some ways perhaps bigger factors here, but at the same time, Bui's mom copes with most of the same factors in healthier ways.
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Intergenerational AI Literacy in Korean Immigrant Families: Interpretive Gatekeeping Meets Convenient Critical Deferment
Jeongone Seo, Ryan Womack, Tawfiq Ammari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10197

Intergenerational AI Literacy in Korean Immigrant Families: Interpretive Gatekeeping Meets Convenient Critical Deferment
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply integrated into family life, immigrant families must navigate unique intergenerational, linguistic, and cultural challenges. This study examines how Korean immigrant families in the United States negotiate the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT and smart assistants in their homes. Through 20 semi-structured interviews with parents and teens, we identify two key practices that shape their engagement: interpretive gatekeeping, where parents mediate thei…

Automation, AI, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Knowledge
Enrique Ide
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.16078

Automation, AI, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Knowledge
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have fueled predictions of unprecedented productivity growth. Yet, by enabling senior workers to perform more tasks on their own, AI may inadvertently reduce entry-level opportunities, raising concerns about how future generations will acquire essential skills. In this paper, I develop a model to examine how advanced automation affects the intergenerational transmission of knowledge. The analysis reveals that automating entry-level tasks yields im…

Intergenerational Support for Deepfake Scams Targeting Older Adults
Karina LaRubbio, Alyssa Lanter, Seihyun Lee, Mahima Ramesh, Diana Freed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11579 http…

Intergenerational Support for Deepfake Scams Targeting Older Adults
AI-enhanced scams now employ deepfake technology to produce convincing audio and visual impersonations of trusted family members, often grandchildren, in real time. These attacks fabricate urgent scenarios, such as legal or medical emergencies, to socially engineer older adults into transferring money. The realism of these AI-generated impersonations undermines traditional cues used to detect fraud, making them a powerful tool for financial exploitation. In this study, we explore older adults' …

Strict Comparisons of Infinite Utility Streams
Michael Greinecker, Michael Nielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20567 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20567…

Strict Comparisons of Infinite Utility Streams
There exists a preference relation on infinite utility streams that does not discriminate between different periods, satisfies the Pareto criterion, and so that almost all pairs of utility streams are strictly comparable. Such a preference relation provides a counterexample to a claim in [Zame, William R. ``Can intergenerational equity be operationalized?'' Theoretical Economics 2.2 (2007): 187-202.]

Bivariate Distribution Regression; Theory, Estimation and an Application to Intergenerational Mobility
Victor Chernozhukov, Iv\'an Fern\'andez-Val, Jonas Meier, Aico van Vuuren, Francis Vella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12716

Bivariate Distribution Regression; Theory, Estimation and an Application to Intergenerational Mobility
We employ distribution regression (DR) to estimate the joint distribution of two outcome variables conditional on chosen covariates. While Bivariate Distribution Regression (BDR) is useful in a variety of settings, it is particularly valuable when some dependence between the outcomes persists after accounting for the impact of the covariates. Our analysis relies on a result from Chernozhukov et al. (2018) which shows that any conditional joint distribution has a local Gaussian representation. W…

The streets of New Philangeles crawl with Avoidants. Interdimensional husks with glowing green fog eyes, walking like crickets, made of intergenerational trauma and supermarket tequila and reruns of the first Saw movie. Only Super Empath can save us now. Quick, child! To her therapy-inspo Pinterest alt!! Flood her with prayers for help!!!!

Rethinking Indonesia's Public Debt in the Era of Negative Interest Rate-Growth Differentials
Mervin Goklas Hamonangan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18092 https://

Rethinking Indonesia's Public Debt in the Era of Negative Interest Rate-Growth Differentials
This study contributes to the discussion about how higher public debt may not be costly because of the negative interest rate-growth differentials by simulating OLG models introduced by Blanchard (2019) under uncertainty, showing debt and welfare dynamics in two scenarios: intergenerational transfers and debt rollovers in the case of Indonesia. The simulation is done by modifying the model parameters based on interest rate-growth differentials historic data from 2004-2019. It is found that the …

Replaced article(s) found for econ.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.GN/new
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- Intergenerational Mobility Trends and the Changing Role of Female Labor
Ulrika Ahrsj\"o, Ren\'e Karadakic, Joachim Kahr Rasmussen

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14440 has been replaced.
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Intergenerational Mobility Trends and the Changing Role of Female Labor
Using harmonized administrative data from Scandinavia, we find that intergenerational rank associations in income have increased uniformly across Sweden, Denmark, and Norway for cohorts born between 1951 and 1979. By gender, father-son mobility remains stable, while correlations for mothers and daughters rise. Similar patterns appear in US survey data, albeit with different timing. We show that the decline in income mobility reflects female income more accurately capturing underlying productivi…