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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021

connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these … close at about 0.1. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …

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Dark passage : mental health consequences of parental death

Böckerman, Petri; Haapanen, Mika; Jepsen, Christopher - 2021

This paper studies the causal effect of parental death on children’s mental health. Combining several nationwide … children. …

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Child care markets, parental labor supply, and child development

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ferreira, María M.; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2020

This paper develops and estimates a model of child care markets that endogenizes demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry,...

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The effects of graduating from high school in a recession : college investments, skill formation, and labor-market outcomes

Hampf, Franziska; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2020

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...

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Maternal education, home environments and the development of children and adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Parey, Matthias - 2010

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and their children, we can control for mother's ability and family background factors. Our … results show substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate …

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Behavioral barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2021

Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less … care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive …

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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...

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The value of early-career skills

Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...

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Estimates of earnings returns by field of study for for-profit schools and community colleges

Jepsen, Christopher; Mueser, Peter R.; Troske, Kenneth R.; … - 2023

This paper estimates labor-market returns for students pursuing certificates or associate's degrees in eight broad … fields of study at community colleges and for-profit institutions. The data contain 400,000 students beginning their studies …

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Returns to skills around the world : evidence from PIAAC

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2014

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

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