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. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three …Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children's health … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …
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naturalized children of guest workers, ethnic Germans, EU and third country immigrants. In line with previous research, I find … less adversely affected by low parental education than are the children of native Germans. …
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The paper shows that parents' education is an important, but hardly exclusive part of the common family background that … an additional year of either mother's or father's education increases their children's education by as little as one … better educated mothers work more in paid employment and spend less time interacting with their children. We test this …
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We use a credible regression discontinuity design to estimate causal education effects. Pupils in the Swiss education system had to pass a centrally organized exam that classified them into different levels of secondary school, and that ultimately determined their educational degree. A major...
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The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs predominantly in infinitely-lived agent models despite the finite lifetime of individuals. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate the results to the infinitely-lived agent setting. We identify...
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We argue that independent entitlement to income is important. This implies that earnings replacement benefits paid to …. The argument also highlights the need to consider gender differences in the receipt of income. We explore the implications …
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2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …
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This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home …. Controlling for family background, I find that the children of immigrants in Germany perform better than peers in every origin …
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progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining … educational progress. We also find a strong tendency for observers to understate the problems of older children and adolescents …
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deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal …This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …
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