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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 …
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This paper investigates the redistributive impact of private and public childcare provision and education on children …'s resources in Germany between 2009 and 2013. It takes account of the multidimensionality of children's needs and access to … among children such that it cushions cash income inequality. One major reason for this effect is that public in …
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This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...
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We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in … Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see …
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work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …
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children. As our main result, we provide causal evidence on the effect of the social environment by randomly enrolling children … in a year-long mentoring programme. We find that, about four years after the end of the programme, mentored children are …
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