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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 …
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the age of 50 by parental income for men. However, the longevity gains of men from low-income families seem to have come … at the cost of increased mortality among men who grew up in high-income families. This raises questions about the welfare …
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Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation … use rich panel data to link parents to children's long-run outcomes. The key to our regression discontinuity design is … spillovers by 2014. Moreover, children of treated parents complete an extra 0.12 years of schooling on average, an investment …
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While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and...
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Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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We study the transmission of risk attitudes in a unique survey of mothers and children in which both participated in an … incentivized risk preference elicitation task. We document that risk preferences are correlated between mothers and children when … the children are just 7 to 8 years old. This correlation is only present for daughters. We show that a measure of parental …
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female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated … indication that students with children have a lower dropout rate since their probability to register a diploma is higher …
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. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …
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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