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income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …
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particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are the result of spurious … estimates of the effect of parental education will be biased upwards. Moreover, it is very common for parental income data to be … grouped, in which case income is measured with error and the coefficient on income will be biased towards zero and there are …
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daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in … six different family circumstances: raised by both biological parents, raised by the biological mother without a … the biological father with a stepmother, and raised by two adoptive parents. Relative to the existing literature, the most …
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This paper makes three contributions to the literature on educational attainment gaps by family income. First, we … conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on post-secondary (PS) attendance for recent high … Youth in Transition Survey. We estimate substantially smaller PS attendance gaps by parental income in Canada relative to …
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We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …-born German children and non-existent for children from guestworker households. Income effects are also small relative to the … late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not …
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We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a …-born German children and non-existent for children from guestworker households. Income effects are also small relative to the … late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not …
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We conduct a real-effort task experiment where subjects' performance translates into a donation to a charity. In a within-subjects design we vary the visibility of the donation (no/private/public feedback). Confirming previous studies, we find that subjects' performance increases, that is, they...
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This study investigates experimentally whether people in retrospective are self-aware that they engage in status-seeking behavior. Subjects participated in a real-effort task where effort translated into a donation to a charity. Within-subjects we varied the visibility of their performance...
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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...
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