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secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … students in Hebrew-language schools from eighth grade to age 29, we provide evidence that despite Israeli schools being …
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fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …
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-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …
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We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …
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attainment, the relaxation of budget constraints, and increased social contact for children whose parents are less advantaged in …
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outcomes, primarily driven by children of parents from select Asian countries. These individuals are more likely to complete …, health, natural and physical sciences, and engineering. Children of NESB immigrant parents initially earn less than their …-school outcomes of Australian-born children of immigrant parents. …
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) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …
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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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the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …
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care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker’s rotten kids theorem holds for the … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a "game" inspired by Becker …
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