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secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … students in Hebrew-language schools from eighth grade to age 29, we provide evidence that despite Israeli schools being …
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-Saharan Africa). This suggests a dominant role for the parents in determining educational opportunities of children. Evidence on the …
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attainment, the relaxation of budget constraints, and increased social contact for children whose parents are less advantaged in …
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fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children’s economic preferences …
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) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio …
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the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent …
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Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents …'s accumulation of wealth and investor behavior as adults, even when removing the genetic connection between children and the parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation …
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traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …
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care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker’s rotten kids theorem holds for the … old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each period the three generations play a "game" inspired by Becker …
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This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …
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