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traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …
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This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …
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This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …
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that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …
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,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children …
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dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …
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Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
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. Second, we show that a randomized mentoring intervention that exposes low-SES children to predominantly female role models …
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parental unemployment on children's human capital should be considered by policymakers, as should educational interventions to …
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