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The parental wage gap and the development of socio-emotional skills in children

Hufe, Paul - 2024

Converging labor market opportunities of men and women have altered the economic incentives for how families invest monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes in the parental wage gap (PWG) - defined as the...

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Migration and human capital in an endogenous fertility model

Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008

How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise … found that increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation, while low skilled …

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Migration and human capital in an endogenous fertility model

Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008

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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

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Human Capital Investments and Family Size in Italy : IV Estimates Using Twin Births as an Instrument

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2022

Human capital investments at an early age appear crucial for individual outcomes. Family size might affect these investments influencing parental time and economic resources invested in children's education. This aspect is related to the children quantity-quality trade-off proposed by Becker...

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The effect of a sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation

Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...

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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio - 2017

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments....

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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio - 2019

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deﬁcits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child...

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Health and Skill Formation in Early Childhood

Biroli, Pietro - 2016

This paper analyzes the developmental origins and the evolution of health, cognitive, and socio-emotional skills during early childhood, from age 0 to 5. We explicitly model the dynamic interactions of health with the child's behavior and cognitive skills, as well as the role of parental...

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Early Childhood Human Capital Formation at Scale

Bos, Johannes; Akib Khan; Ravindran, Saravana; Shonchoy, Abu - 2021

Can governments leverage existing service-delivery platforms to scale early childhood development (ECD) programs? We experimentally study a large-scale home-visiting intervention providing materials and counseling --- integrated into Bangladesh's national nutrition program without extra...

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