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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034138
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Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap : despite major efforts at equal pay legislation, gender pay inequality still exists in the developed economies : how can this be put...
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014
Despite equal pay legislation dating back 50 years, American women still earn 22% less than their male counterparts. In the UK, with its Equal Pay Act of 1970, and France, which legislated in 1972, the gap is 21% and 17% respectively, and in Australia it remains around 17%. Interestingly, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414112
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Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation : medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child hea...
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2015
Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433879
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Human capital effects of marriage payments : investing in femal human capital can reduce brideprice and dowry practices and increase welfare
Anderson, Siwan - 2014
Payments at the time of marriage, which are ubiquitous in developing countries, can be substantial enough to impoverish parents. Brideprice and dowry have both been linked to domestic violence against women, and inflation in these payments has prompted legislation against them in several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420043
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Does early-life health enhance growth? : evidence from Spain
Blázquez-Fernández, C.; Cantarero-Prieto, D.; Pérez, … - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 10/12, pp. 860-864
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286040
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How does the one child policy impact social and economic outcomes? : a strict policy on fertility effects every aspect of economic life
Huang, Wei - 2017
The 20th century witnessed the birth of modern family planning and its effects on the fertility of hundreds of millions …’s economy and society in ways that extend well beyond its fertility rate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730592
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Intergenerational return to human capital : better educated parents invest more time and money in their children, who are more successful in the labor market
Devereux, Paul J. - 2014
outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414158
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Does education strengthen the life skills of adolescents? : secondary and higher education are windows of opportunity for boosting students’ life skills
Schurer, Stefanie - 2017
Life skills, sometimes referred to as noncognitive skills or personality traits (e.g. conscientiousness or locus of control-the belief to influence events and their outcomes), affect labor market productivity. Policy makers and academics are thus exploring whether such skills should be taught at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662142
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The quantity-quality fertility-education trade-off : policies to reduce fertility in developing countries generally boost education levels, but only slightly
Liu, Haoming - 2015
its total fertility rate. At the household level, it has also been well documented that children's education is negatively … associated with the number of children in the family. Do these observations imply a causal relationship between the number of … children and the average education level (the quantity-quality trade-off)? A clear answer to this question will help both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430732
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Religion and growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495766