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quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents' involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity …We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on … children's educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the …
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Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents …'s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation …
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We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an … evidence of intergenerational links between the social interaction of parents and their offspring supporting the existence of …
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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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We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity … Parents and Children – a rich cohort dataset of children born in the early 1990s in Avon, England – allows us to examine the … continues to be visible up to and including the high stakes exams taken at age 16. Children of parents affected by the reform …
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. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …
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In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who …, replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, and elimination of all school-aged children. Plug (2004) - a recent …
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This paper investigates the relationship between parental health shocks and children's engagement in education and … health on children's educational and labour market outcomes is limited, especially in developing countries. We use child … maternal illness substantially decreases chances of being enrolled in school for children between 10 and 23 years old and, at …
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children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after … whole period. We find that boys and girls with lesbian parents had 2.4 percent lower birth weight than other children, a … uses a small sample so precision is low. The point estimates show that boys with lesbian parents outperform other children …
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