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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries
Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft
-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013284061
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Is gender destiny? : gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility in India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2021 - This version: March 22, 2021
children of urban college educated fathers, but not in rural areas. Theoretical insights help understand the mechanisms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496682
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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020 - This Version: March 15, 2020
persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. Inurban China, and urban and … evidence of pure son preference in rural India.The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177399
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Genetic risks, adolescent health and schooling attainment
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R.; Fletcher, Jason; … - 2020
We provide new evidence on the effect of adolescent health behaviors/outcomes (obesity, depression, smoking, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)) on schooling attainment using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We take two different approaches to deal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239296
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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey
Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019
substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159294
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What the mean measures of mobility miss : learning about intergenerational mobility from conditional variance
Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, … - 2022 - This version: February 17, 2022
A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to … suggests a strong influence of father's education on conditional variance of children's schooling. We find substantial … measures substantially underestimate the effects of family background on children's educational opportunities, and may give a …
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