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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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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married men and women. Using PSID data, we find that husbands who are thinner relative to their wives work fewer hours, while wives who are heavier relative to their husbands work more...

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Family economics writ large

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

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Marriage, bereavement and mortality: The role of health care utilization

Simeonova, Emilia - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 1, pp. 33-50

There is ample evidence that bereavement is associated with heightened mortality. Regardless of whether this strong association is truly causal, little is known about the factors contributing to it. This study begins to unpack the black box of the bereavement–mortality puzzle by investigating...

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Social Security and Demographic Trends: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience

Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 10 (2007) 1, pp. 55-77

The worldwide problem with pay-as-you-go, defined-benefits social security systems isn't just financial. Through a dynamic, overlapping-generations model where forming a family and bearing and educating children are choice variables, we show that social security taxes and benefits generate...

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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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