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Chapter 25 The political economy of intergenerational cooperation

Cigno, Alessandro - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1505-1558). 2006

This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...

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Israeli Child Policy and Outcomes

Gal, John; Ajzenstadt, Mimi; Ben-Arieh, Asher; Holler, Roni - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2010

fields of education, health, cash transfers, taxation and personal social services. In addition, the labour market and …

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Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment

Booth, Alison L; Kee, Hiau Joo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

parents to their children’s education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from … they are not, and that the shares are decreasing with birth order. Controlling for parental education, parental age at … birth and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education, that there is …

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Rural Wages and Returns to Education: Differences Between Whites, Blacks, and American Indians

Kimmel, Jean - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 1994

rural focus, Whites are more similar to American Indians, both experiencing very small wage returns to education. However …, females enjoy much higher returns to education than males. …

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Who Marries Differently Aged Spouses? Ability, Education, Occupation, Earnings, and Appearance

Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 577-580

marriage, are consistent with a model in which individuals with more schooling and more upwardly mobile occupations interact …

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Chapter 10. Conflict and Cooperation Within the Family, and Between the State and the Family, in the Provision of Old-Age Security

Cigno, A. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 609-660). 2016

The early contributions to the microeconomic literature assume that only market goods yield utility, and that the only way adults can secure the consumption of these goods in old age is by saving. The more recent contributions recognize, however, that the elderly derive utility also from goods...

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Reversal of gender gaps in child development: Evidence from young children in India

Lopez Boo, Florencia; Canon, Maria Eugenia - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 55-59

This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses its sign for the upper caste, with girls performing...

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Do higher levels of education and skills in an area benefit wider society? : education benefits individuals, but the societal benefits are likely even greater

Winters, John V. - 2015

Formal schooling increases earnings and provides other individual benefits. However, societal benefits of education may … exceed individual benefits. Research finds that increased average education levels in an area are correlated with higher … earnings, even for locals with relatively little education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates …

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Can Achievement Peer Effect Estimates Inform Policy? A View from Inside the Black Box

Fruehwirth, Jane Cooley - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 514-523

. However, in the education context, many theories of peer spillovers center around unobservables, such as ability, effort, or …

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Decomposing the relationship between human capital and GDP:an empirical analysis of Bangladesh

Ahmad, Nazneen; French, Joseph J. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 44 (2011) 2, pp. 127-142

higher secondary education are found to have the greatest short to medium-term impact on the country's real GDP. Consistently … that secondary and higher secondary education should be emphasized by Bangladesh. …

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