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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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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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) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …
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children of urban college educated fathers, but not in rural areas. Theoretical insights help understand the mechanisms …
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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 …
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childhood are more likely to send their children to work. We also look at the effect of social norms on the parents' child labor … poverty is viewed as the main reason for child labor, we choose to focus on the phenomenon that parents who worked during own … explanation for the phenomenon of poor societies with similar income levels that differ significantly in literacy rates and …
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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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Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...
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order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may …
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