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The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education
Black, Sandra E. - 2004
order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467969
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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far : Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E. - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468628
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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884097
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Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763749
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Education and Mobility
Machin, Stephen; Pelkonen, Panu; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822153
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Why the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822163
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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway. Neighbourhoods are less important than families, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822567
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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies
Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is … researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550512
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Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568292
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Why Children of College Graduates Outperform their Schoolmates: A Study of Cousins and Adoptees
Haegeland, Torbjørn; Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
' education on children's school performance using the children-of-twins approach. However, for adopted children, mother …'s education has a small positive effect. Tracking the work experience of parents during offspring childhood, we find no support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764581