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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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-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …
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) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …
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relationship between very specific inputs of time by parents and later achievements of children … parental inputs children of various socio-economic statuses receive. In the empirical work that follows, we will show a …
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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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administrative register data on 25000 genotyped Norwegian children and their parents. We assess and disentangle the relative … importance of genetics and social background for children's standardized academic test scores. Norway offers a particularly … opportunity structures for children. The results point to genetics only confounding the parent status-offspring achievement …
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household of only three people, in 1850 household size was twice that figure. Further, both the number of children and the …-family relations and focus on households as collections of roommates. The model's mechanism is that rising income leads to a falling … size, consumption patterns, and income in the cross-section at the end of the 20th century. We then project the model back …
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children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college …
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adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in academic achievement and cognitive skill measures. We highlight … harsh parenting as a novel channel of birth order effects, in which earlier-born children are less likely to be physically … punished by their parents. Focusing on son preference as a potential mechanism generating birth order effects, our tests show …
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This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence … educated parents spend more time with their children …
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