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Child gender and parental borrowing: Evidence from India

Agier, Isabelle; Guérin, Isabelle; Szafarz, Ariane - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 3, pp. 363-365

Discrimination against girls is well-documented, especially in Asia. We show that women try to level the playing field for their daughters by taking on debt. But wealth asymmetry between mothers and fathers perpetuates gender inequality across generations.

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Theorie und Empirie über den Wirkungszusammenhang zwischen sozialer Herkunft, kulturellem und sozialem Kapital, Bildung und Einkommen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Krenz, Astrid - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008

mittelbar, über das erreichte Bildungsniveau, das Einkommen eines Menschen bestimmt. Die Bildung eines Individuums hängt dabei … Einkommen determiniert. Neben der Darlegung theoretischer und ökonometrischer Konzepte wird für die Jahre 2001 und 2005 für die … Hintergrunds über kulturelles und soziales Kapital auf das Einkommen herausarbeitet. Es zeigt sich, dass der soziale Hintergrund …

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Illness and Health Satisfaction: The Role of Relative Comparisons

Thiel, Lars - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous research stresses the importance of interdependencies in subjective well-being and health arising from positional preferences and status e ects, social health norms, and...

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Why Do German Men Marry Women from Less Developed Countries?: An Analysis of Transnational Partner Search Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel

Glowsky, David - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

This paper examines why German men marry women from countries which are less economically developed. Two hypotheses deduced from exchange theory and the economic theory of the family are tested: 1. Low physical and social attractiveness as well as reduced opportunities to meet German partners...

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Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US

Brodeur, Abel; Flèche, Sarah - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the … association between well-being and neighbors' income follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in the size of the area. We find a … negative relationship between well-being and neighbors' income in the county of residence, but the opposite at the ZIP code …

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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...

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Education and Italian Regional Development

Liberto, Adriana Di; Symons, James - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

Given recent emphasis on externality to education, macroeconomic studies have a role to play in the analysis of return to schooling. In this paper we study the connection between growth and human capital in a convergence regression for the panel of Italian regions. We include measures of...

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Changes in Returns to Education in Latin America: the Role of Demand and Supply of Skills

Manacorda, Marco; Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina; Schady, Norbert - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

Changes in the relative wages of workers with different amounts of education have profound implications for developing countries, where initial levels of inequality are often very high. In this paper we use micro data for five Latin American countries over the 1980s and 1990s to document trends...

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Educational Expansion and Its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers

Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place. In order to tackle the issues...

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Why is the Rate of Return to Schooling Higher For Women Than For Men?

Dougherty, C - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

The rate of return to schooling appears to be nearly two percentage points greater for females than for males in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, despite the fact that females tend to earn less, both absolutely and controlling for personal characteristics. A survey of previous...

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