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This paper investigates whether young people whose fathers are union members are themselves more likely to join a union. We find that young people with unionized fathers are twice as likely to be unionized as those with non-union fathers; this rises to three times higher for those whose fathers...
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is to examine whether the parents' educational mismatch generates a disincentive in their children education. In … which makes it ideal for carrying out this study. The results show that students with over-educated parents have a penalty … particular, we examine whether the mismatch in parental education affects the educational outcomes for children using Spanish …
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concentrated among children whose parents have a high school education or less …We study the relationship between parental job loss and children's academic achievement using data on job loss and … grade retention from the 1996, 2001, and 2004 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation. We find that a …
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displacement are an important mechanism of the effects on children, highlighting the importance of policies that provide income …We study the effects of parental job loss on children and how access to unemployment benefits can mitigate these … approach studying impacts on education as well as other key dimensions of children's lives. First, leveraging mass layoffs for …
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displacement are an important mechanism of the effects on children, highlighting the importance of policies that provide income …We study the effects of parental job loss on children and how access to unemployment benefits can mitigate these … approach studying impacts on education as well as other key dimensions of children's lives. First, leveraging mass layoffs for …
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We compare estimates of the effects of education on health and health behaviour using two different instrumental variables in the UK Biobank data. One is based on a conventional natural experiment while the other, known as Mendelian randomization (MR), is based on genetic variants. The natural...
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