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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis
de Haan, Monique - 2008
This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325931
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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - 2002
the substantial political efforts to equalize educational opportunities in Germany. Persons with less-educated parents …
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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325854
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Targeted Advertising and Social Status
Vikander, Nick - 2011
This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A monopolist sells multiple varieties of a good to consumers who each care about what others believe about his wealth. Advertising allows consumers both to buy different varieties and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325736
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The role of parental investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation: Evidence for the first 11 years of life
Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; Reuß, Karsten - 2010
during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300379
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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - 2011
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306004
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Extracting the causal component from the intergenerational correlation in unemployment
Ekhaugen, Tyra - 2005
This paper examines the intergenerational correlation in unemployment in Norway and, by use of the sibling-difference method, separates that correlation into its causal and non-causal parts. Detailed register data covering the entire Norwegian population provide the long panel of data this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284254
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Asymmetries and interdependencies in time use between Italian parents
Mancini, Anna Laura; Pasqua, Silvia - 2011
In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare the two waves of the Italian Time Use dataset (1988 and 2002 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304321
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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education
Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2006
On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...
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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000
Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297667