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income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …
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vocational training nor the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, can … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …
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This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of parental education via instrumental variables we exploit the feature of the transmission mechanism...
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This paper studies the intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on students' transitions after completing … adverse impact of parental unemployment on children's educational transitions. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio … mediation analysis suggests that the effect of paternal unemployment is not due to the loss of income, but relates to the …
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about 75 percent of the intergenerational correlation in education is driven by the joint contribution of the parents. We … intergenerational transmission from both parents; a fall compensated by an increase in parent-specific intergenerational transmission …
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benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …
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uses administrative data on students attending a large public university to estimate the effect of DACA on undocumented … students' educational outcomes. The data are unique because they accurately identify students' legal status, account for … individual heterogeneity, and allow separate analysis of students attending community colleges versus baccalaureate-granting, 4 …
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The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...
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quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents' involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity …We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on … children's educational attainment and test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that the better the …
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This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential … from parents to their children, there are large discrepancies with respect to the age group and the type of skill. The … personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental …
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