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parental death. Comparisons are drawn between those children who lost one parent, both parents and those whose parents survived …
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teenager and the willingness of parents to continue to house and support their daughters given their decisions. Drawing on the … work of Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982) on reputation in repeated games, we show that parents have …
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We use rich administrative data from Denmark to assess medical theories that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable condition transmitted through underlying parental skills. Positing that occupational choices reflect skills, we create two separate occupation-based skill measures and find...
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parents of higher SES being more likely to believe that parental investments impact child development. We then use two field …
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public and legislators must make regarding children's expenditures, the progressivity of the contributions between parents …, neutral medical decisions, and not requiring higher contributions from parents with a lower salary …
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Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood. These children exhibit poor outcomes as children and...
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We propose and validate a simple way to augment the standard Becker-DeGroot-Marschak method that researchers use to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for a good. The augmentation is to measure WTP for another good ("benchmark good"), one unrelated to both the good the researcher is interested in...
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connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these …
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particular, we test whether COVID-19 school closures have a disproportionate impact on parents of school-age children (age 5 …-17 years old) and whether childcare closures affect parents of young children (age <5 years old) relative to others. Our … results suggest that while closures have had little impact on whether parents work at all, they have had significant effects …
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emphasis on isolating the effects of diet and parent's fatness on the obesity outcome. The results show that parents fatness …-obese youth, however, do not differ substantially. Evidence that youth with "fatter parents" are able to produce more skin-fold or …'s fatness effects in the youth obesity probability equations. The probability models show that if either of the parents of a 10 …
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