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This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational … income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists … including the U.S. income quintile transition matrix. I find that the parental time investment channel accounts for nearly 40 …
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In this paper, we exploit the Swedish compulsory schooling reform in order to estimate the causal effect of parental education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive...
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children who were exposed longer to the sanctions. The results imply that sanctions have a larger effect on the income of … children than their parents. Therefore, ignoring the effects of sanctions on future generations significantly understates their … on children's education by exploiting the United Nations sanctions imposed on Iran in 2006. Using the variation in the …
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about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … intergenerational transmission from both parents; a fall compensated by an increase in parent-specific intergenerational transmission …
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children with US-born parents and those with at least one immigrant parent. We found that children with immigrant parents have …
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We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth weights significantly predict the child's birth weight even after accounting for all genetic and...
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immigrant peers. I find that exposure to immigrant children has dissimilar effects on native students' achievements across the …This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three … in the share of immigrant children between different grade levels within schools is exploited to identify the impact of …
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educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …
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