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Intergenerational altruism and transfers of time and money: a life cycle perspective

Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2023

, it is crucial to announce them in advance to allow parents to adjust their investments when their children are young. …Parental investments significantly impact children's outcomes. Exploiting panel data covering individuals from birth to … mothers and fathers make investments in their children. We find that time investments, educational investments, and …

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Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: Models, methjods and results from the NCDS

Blundell, Richard W.; Dearden, Lorraine; Sianesi, Barbara - 2003

Regression, matching, control function and instrumental variables methods for recovering the impact of education on individual earnings are reviewed for single treatment and sequential multiple treatments with and without heterogeneous returns. The sensitivity of the estimates once applied to a...

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Explaining the socio-economic gradient in child outcomes: The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills

Crawford, Claire; Goodman, Alissa; Joyce, Robert - 2010

Papers in this volume and elsewhere consistently find a strong relationship between children's cognitive abilities and … their parents' socio-economic position (SEP). Most studies seeking to explain the paths through which SEP affects cognitive … determinant of children's cognitive abilities, namely parental cognitive ability. A range of econometric strategies have been …

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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011

as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals … the generation directly affected by the reform as well as their children. We use census data on all born in Sweden between … 1945 and 1955 and all their children merged with individual register data on all convictions between 1981 and 2008. We find …

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Can education compensate low ability? Evidence from british data

Denny, Kevin; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2004

This paper uses cross section data to investigate whether the returns to education vary with the level of ability. Using a measure of cognitive ability based on tests taken at ages 7 and 11 we find, unlike most of the existing literature, clear evidence that the return to schooling is lower for...

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The effect of school quality on educational attainment and wages

Dearden, Lorraine; Ferri, Javier; Meghir, Costas - 2000

The paper examines the effects of school pupil-teacher ratios and type of school on educational attainment and wages using the British National Child Development survey (NCDS). The NCDS is a panel survey which has followed a cohort of individuals born in March 1958, and has a rich set of...

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Education. earning and skills: A multi-country comparison

Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent - 2004

This paper uses the measures of basic skills (or functional literacy) in the International Adult Literacy Survey to examine the impact of education and basic skills on earnings across a large number of countries. We show that the estimated return to formal education is sensitive to the inclusion...

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Breaking the cycle? The effect of education on welfare receipt among children of welfare recipients

Coelli, Michael B.; Green, David Alan; Warburton, William P. - 2004

themselves. Our data consists of administrative educational records for grade 12 students in a Canadian province linked with … their own and their parents' welfare records. We address potential endogeneity problems by: 1) controlling for ability using … larger for individuals from troubled family backgrounds and low income neighbourhoods. …

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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital

Vandenbussche, Jérôme; Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas - 2004

We examine the contribution of human capital to economy-wide technological improvements through the two channels of innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labor has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer to the technological frontier under the reasonable...

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Ability, parental background and education policy: Empirical evidence from a social experiment

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2003

Following the great expansion of secondary education in the United States between 1910 and 1940, Sweden was one of the first Western European countries to attempt such an expansion by increasing the years of compulsory schooling and and improving access to academic type education by abolishing...

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