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children through purposeful investments. Weexploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children …, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who invest more in the upbringing of their children are more similar to them with …
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We explore the link between parental selection and criminality of children in a newcontext. After the collapse of the … uncertainty. We exploit this natural experiment in a differences in differences setup to first estimate that the children from … play important roles in the parental selection-crime of children relationship. Finally, results for siblings support a …
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The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...
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school-going children. When children attend school, the potential time working mothers miss out with their children, is … smaller than when children do not yet attend school. At the same time, working might benefit children through, for example … children enter school. We find no negative relation between maternal working hours and child outcomes as is often found for pre …
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The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against othersare exophobicor because they favor their own kindare endophilic This difference matters, as the relative importance of...
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In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...
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Social background directly impacts educational choice and attainment, but also influences choice and attainment indirectly by affecting school performance. Boudon (1974) described this relationship as primary (indirect) and secondary (direct) effects of social stratification. Based on this...
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scores of both the male and female migrants’ children in their destination countries. Further analyses suggest that the …
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recommendation as compared to the other recommendations, for students whose parents have a tertiary education degree are between 1 ….6 and 3.6 times greater than for students whose parents only have a primary education degree. For the math exit test score I …
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We estimate the impact of spatial mobility on job match quality by using a data set of recent Dutch university and college graduates We find positive wage returns related to spatial mobility. However, after controlling for the self-selection of migrants with an IV approach, this effect is no...
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