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Are Economic Preferences Shaped by the Family Context? The Impact of Birth Order and Siblings' Sex Composition on Economic Preferences
Detlefsen, Lena; Friedl, Andreas; Lima de Miranda, Katharina - 2018
The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an experiment with 525 teenagers how both birth order and siblings’ sex composition affect risk, time and social preferences. We find that second born children are...
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Birth Order in the Very Long-Run: Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940
Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - 2024
The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...
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Life Insurance, Precautionary Saving and Contingent Bequest
Chang, Fwu-Ranq - 2001
Purchasing life insurance is for the welfare of young children, par-ticularly preteens, who are liquidity constrained. In this paper, we present a life cycle model of life insurance that takes into account the ages of these young beneciaries. We show that, as the child ages, the need for...
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
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The trade-off between fertility and education : evidence from before the demographic transition
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
The trade-off between child quantity and education is a crucial ingredient of unified growth models that explain the transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. We present first evidence that such a trade-off indeed existed before the demographic transition, exploiting a unique...
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Globalization, gender and development: The effect of parental labor supply on child schooling
Marchand, Beyza Ural; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond - 2011
Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within … affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
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Opportunity and Inequality across Generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020
schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic …
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Covid-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships and Schooling Outcomes
Gehrke, Esther; Lenel, Friederike; Schupp, Claudia - 2022
We combine phone-survey data from 2,200 students collected in July-August of 2020 with student-level administrative data from 54 schools in four Northwestern provinces of Cambodia to investigate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for grade 9 students. These students were particularly...
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Out of the Shadows and into the Classroom: Immigrant Legalization, Hispanic Schooling and Hispanic Representation on School Boards
Sabet, Navid - 2023
, to study the impact of immigrant legalization on schooling outcomes. Although undocumented migrants are entitled to … sort out of public education and into private schooling. The IRCA differentially increases Hispanic school board members …
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