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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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Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions, which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124116
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Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer
Sällström, Susanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Two of the earliest inventions of a human capital-intensive technology were for the production of personal internal goods that enabled humans to derive more pleasure out of leisure, namely dance and music. I model the incentives to invent hobbies and to acquire hobby skills, and its implications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504741
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The Mystery of Monogamy
Gould, Eric D; Moav, Omer; Simhon, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
marriage market is higher in equilibrium as women are valued more for their quality versus quantity of children when human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123932
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Education and Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Evidence Using the Timing of Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Fixed Effects
Fletcher, Jason M.; Wolfe, Barbara L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
The question of whether giving birth as a teenager has negative economic consequences for the mother remains controversial despite substantial research. In this paper, we build upon existing literature, especially the literature that uses the experience of teenagers who had a miscarriage as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971334
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Love and Money: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Household Sorting and Inequality
Fernández, Raquel; Guner, Nezih; Knowles, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
in which agents decide whether to become skilled or unskilled, form households, consume and have children. We show that … initial conditions. The degree of marital sorting, wage inequality, per capita income and fertility differentials are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123829
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Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty
Moav, Omer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper develops a theory of fertility and child educational choice that offers an explanation for the persistence … of poverty within and across countries. The joint determination of the quality (education) and quantity of children in … human capital. As a result, the poor choose high fertility rates with low education investment and therefore, their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667134
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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
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Sorting, Education and Inequality
Fernández, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper examines the education literature through the lens of sorting. It argues that how individuals sort across neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality. It discusses the implications of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123607
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299373