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Is the eldest son different? The residential choice of siblings in Japan

Wakabayashi, Midori; Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2006

In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements of elderly parents and their children (whether … elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. We … find that the proportion of elderly parents living with their eldest sons is much higher than that of elderly parents …

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Cross-National Estimates of the Intergenerational Mobility in Earnings

Lillard, Dean R. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 51-58

This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of...

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Impacts of forced marriages in Cambodia under the Pol Pot regime

Kogure, Katsuo - 2011

This paper investigates effects of forced marriages in the Pol Pot regime on educational investments for their children …

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Siblings, Their Sex Composition and Educational Attainment in Germany

Bauer, Thomas; Gang, Ira N. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 215-221

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Bildungssysteme im internationalen Vergleich

Voßkamp, Rainer; Dohmen, Dieter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 77 (2008) 2, pp. 11-32

Bildungssysteme sind integrale Subsysteme nationaler Innovationssysteme. Die Generierung, Anwendung und Diffusion von neuem Wissen und die Umsetzung von Wissen in neue Produkte und Prozesse stellt durch die zunehmende technologische Komplexität wachsende Bildungsanforderungen an die im...

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Gender imbalance at birth and parents' anxiety about old age in China

Kadoya, Yoshihiko; Yin, Ting - 2012

primary caregivers for parents. Nonetheless, parents' dependency on their children would not necessarily decrease with social …Chinese parents prefer to have sons as they depend on their sons for support in old age, according to most of the … security, although children with highly educated spouses appear to present an exception. The current study supports the initial …

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Access to health infrastracture and child health development: Evidence from post-apartheid South Africa

Tanaka, Shinsuke - 2010

, health services are found to improve the nutritional status of not only newly born babies but also children who were already …

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Educational Opportunities of Children in Poverty

Schöb, Anke - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 172-179

In this paper, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to investigate whether and how a German youth' s choice of secondary school (Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium) varies with the timing and duration of poverty experienced in childhood. To investigate what role the timing of...

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Luxusgut Kind zwischen Privatinteresse und gesellschaftlicher Verpflichtung: zu den Kontroversen in der familienpolitischen Debatte

Ott, Notburga - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 71 (2002) 1, pp. 11-25

auch der zu ergreifenden Maßnahmen. Während die einen Kinder als Privatangelegenheit der Eltern ansehen, fordern die …

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Familienpolitik: ordnungspolitische Leitplanken im dichten Nebel des Verteilungskampfes

Berthold, Norbert; Fehn, Rainer - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 71 (2002) 1, pp. 26-42

für oder gegen Kinder zunächst einmal einzig und allein bei den Eltern liegen sollte, dass aber ex post die Argumente …

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