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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2010

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …

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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

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Does a pint a day affect your child's pay? The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on adult outcomes

Nilsson, Peter - 2008

This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp...

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Identifying the returns to lying when the truth is unobserved

Hu, Yingyao; Lewbel, Arthur - 2007

Consider an observed binary regressor D and an unobserved binary variable D*, both of which affect some other variable Y . This paper considers nonparametric identification and estimation of the effect of D on Y , conditioning on D* = 0. For example, suppose Y is a person's wage, the unobserved...

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Trends in quality-adjusted skill premia in the United States, 1960 - 2000

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae - 2008

This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 8 percentage points in the college premium. The standard demand and supply framework (Katz and Murphy, 1992, Card...

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Child mental health and educational attainment: Multiple observers and the measurement error problem

Johnston, David; Propper, Carol; Pudney, Stephen; … - 2011

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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Who wears the trousers? A semiparametric analysis of decision power in couples

Lührmann, Melanie; Maurer, Jürgen - 2007

more individual decision power,especially for women. Moreover, health and income have independent effects on the …

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Nonseparable sample selection models with censored selection rules

Fernández-Val, Iván; van Vuuren, Aico; Vella, Francis - 2018

We consider identification and estimation of nonseparable sample selection models with censored selection rules. We employ a control function approach and discuss different objects of interest based on (1) local effects conditional on the control function, and (2) global effects obtained from...

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Powerful t-Tests in the presence of nonclassical measurement error

Kim, Dongwoo; Wilhelm, Daniel - 2023

This paper proposes a powerful alternative to the t-test of the null hypothesis that a coefficient in linear regression is equal to zero when a regressor is mismeasured. We assume there are two contaminated measurements of the regressor of interest. We allow the two measurement errors to be...

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Career progression, economic downturns and skills

Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

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