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type of involvement and the gender of the parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlier poverty …, especially at age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest in school at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education …. The frequency of outings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education than outings with father …
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The risk of high costs of long-term care services and supports (LTSS) is one of the largest uninsured risks for American families and a major challenge to the sustainability of Medicaid. To address the latter, the long-term care partnership (LTCP) program was an initiative designed to encourage...
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This paper explores the links between school, family and area background influences during adolescence and later adult economic outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on data covering the period 1979 to 1996, drawn from the 1979 US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. For a sample of...
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significance for public policy for education, cities and social mobility. …
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Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the short-term effect of very deprived neighborhoods, characterized by a high density of social housing, on the educational...
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One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly … absorb new health-related information. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) controversy provides a case where, for a short … a positive education gradient into a negative one. We also consider the response in terms of uptake of other childhood …
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positive impact of farm size and reinforce the negative effect of income. The model is estimated for rural Ghana and Pakistan … Pakistan and for girls in Ghana but there is no income effect for the other two groups of children. We find interesting effects … of household size and composition, female headship, and mothers' post-secondary education. …
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concentrated on the income elasticity, but this tells us nothing other than that leisure (or education) is a normal good. Using a …
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, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work …
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updating the existing evidence with a snapshot of the welfare mix in 2007/2008 across five different welfare sectors: Education …, Health, Housing, Income Maintenance and Social Security and Personal Social Services. The paper systematically explores who …
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