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, children's peers are complementary to financial investment by parents, while the adult role models are substitutes. In contrast … of a convex relation in rural and urban Indonesia. The rural-urban relative mobility curves cross, with the children of … children when the father has more than nine years of schooling. However, the rural children face lower absolute mobility across …
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husband and wife separate information on hourly wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate structural …
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as labor earnings of the children who went through the post reform school system, in particular for individuals … the generation directly affected by the reform as well as their children. We use census data on all born in Sweden between … 1945 and 1955 and all their children merged with individual register data on all convictions between 1981 and 2008. We find …
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intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because of credit market imperfections …. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lower returns, and assign lower weights to their welfare ("pure son … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …
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Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
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