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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012665488
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Intergenerational transmission of preferences and parental behaviours
Coda Moscarola, Flavia; Del Boca, Daniela; Paladino, … - 2024
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of preferences between parents and their children, examining … Italian households (parents with children 14-20 years of age) our analysis reveals a significant and positive correspondence … between parents' and children's preferences. The results indicate that sharing information strengthens the transmission of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463574
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How parents' skills affect their time-use with children? : evidence from an RCT experiment in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Schiavon, Lucia - 2020
This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families' time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392182
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Parenting with patience : parental incentives and child development
Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J.; Verriest, Ewout; … - 2023
We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340223
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544331
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Returns to education in the economic transition : a systematic assessment using comparable data
Flabbi, Luca; Paternostro, Stefano; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003491062
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Economic freedom, human rights, and the returns to human capital : an evaluation of the Schultz hypothesis
King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, Claudio; Orazem, Peter F. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663988
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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416403
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235845