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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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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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in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause …This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind … relational and psychological problems that may affect children's welfare in the long-term. The phenomenon of children left behind …
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parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …
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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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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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more income elastic than public goods, as we document in the paper, an increase in income endogenously leads to smaller … number of children. …
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