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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...

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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Loken, Katrine V.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...

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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

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Slavery, Education, and Inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...

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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. …

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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 …

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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...

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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. …

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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 …

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