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Fertility and the Education of African Parents and Children
Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Sub-Saharan Africa exhibits higher fertility and lower education than other world regions. Economic and demographic … theory posit that these phenomena are linked, with slow fertility decline connected to slow education growth among both …, fertility, and child education in female birth cohorts surrounding the onset of the region's fertility transition. Fertility …
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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation
Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … find that the policies exacerbated the motherhood penalty in labor market outcomes and that they affected fertility choices …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : Maternal Endowments, Investments, and Birth Outcomes
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...
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Four Facts about Human Capital
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation in labor earnings within countries and at least half of the variation across countries. Second, human capital...
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What Do Changes in State Test Scores Imply for Later Life Outcomes?
Doty, Elena; Kane, Thomas J.; Patterson, Tyler; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In the three decades before the pandemic, mean achievement of U.S. 8th graders in math rose by more than half a standard deviation on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Between 2019 and 2022, U.S. students had forfeited 40 percent of that rise. To anticipate the consequences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477193
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Parental Educational Investment and Children's Academic Risk : Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variations in Fertility
Conley, Dalton - 2005
The stylized fact that individuals who come from families with more children are disadvantaged in the schooling process has been one of the most robust effects in human capital and stratification research over the last few decades. For example, Featherman and Hauser (1978: 242-243) estimate that...
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Family Inequality : Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing
Lundberg, Shelly - 2016
The last 60 years have seen the emergence of a dramatic socioeconomic gradient in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and childbearing. The divide is between college graduates and others: those without four-year degrees have family patterns and trajectories very similar to those of high school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456596
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Preference for Boys, Family Size and Educational Attainment in India
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2015
Using data from nationally representative household surveys, we test whether Indian parents make trade-offs between the number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint determination of quantity and quality of children by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457528
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Mother's Schooling and Fertility under Low Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lavy, Victor - 2011
This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … large increase in schooling attainment triggered a sharp decline in completed fertility. We show that no other changes … convergence in fertility and schooling, changes in labor-force participation, age upon marriage, marriage and divorce rates, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461802
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Does Parental Quality Matter? Evidence on the Transmission of Human Capital Using Variation in Parental Influence from Death, Divorce, and Family Size
Gould, Eric - 2019
This paper examines the transmission of human capital from parents to children using variation in parental influence due to parental death, divorce, and the increasing specialization of parental roles in larger families. All three sources of variation yield strikingly similar patterns which show...
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