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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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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390346
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612969