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Parental investment in childhood and later adult well-being: can more involved parents offset the effects of socioeconomic disadvantage?

Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Parental involvement in their children’s lives can have a lasting impact on well-being. More involved parents convey to … their children that they are interested in their development, and this in turn signals to the child that their future is … Development Study; a longitudinal study of children born in Britain in 1958. Results on a sample of children raised in two parent …

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Accounting for intergenerational income persistence: non-cognitive skills, ability and education

Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the...

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Social exclusion and children: a European view for a US debate

Micklewright, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …

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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?

Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … effects should differ between people with children and people without children. Public support to families is also expected to … working hours are weak and insignificant. In regressions with time spent caring for children as a dependent variable, the …

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Quality competition, market structure and endogenous growth

Tong, Jian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

This paper studies the role of quality competition in endogenous growth and institutional factors which can affect growth through affecting quality competition. The R&D-based growth literature as it stands attributes the incentives for innovations to monopolist market structure, and regards the...

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Growth and inequality: a demographic explanation

Miyazawa, Kazutoshi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended model of the accidental bequest with endogenous fertility, we analyze the effects of a decrease in the old-age mortality rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the...

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Employment after motherhood: a European comparison

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

There is theoretical evidence that economic and family policies have an important impact on mother''s employment. The aim of this article is to study empirically the women''s transitions from employment to non-employment after they have their first birth in Belgium, West-Germany, Italy, Spain...

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Is child work necessary?

Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper investigates why children work by studying the wage elasticity of child labour supply. Incorporating … poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the …

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Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain

Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper investigates whether young people whose fathers are union members are themselves more likely to join a union. We find that young people with unionized fathers are twice as likely to be unionized as those with non-union fathers and that this rises to three times higher for those whose...

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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis

Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...

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