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not work at all, time spent with children, and child-related expenditures, we find that income risk impacts skill …This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill … development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or …
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Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
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We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital formation arises from two separate effects: a life expectancy effect and a prolonged intergenerational...
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less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the …
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We relate an observed difference between single men (SM) and single women (SW) in attitudes towards risk to the higher value assigned to social status by SM than by SW. In the marriage market, low status carries a harsher penalty for SM than for SW because when selecting a partner, the social...
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