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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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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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intergenerational transmission of education. We test whether education transmission is higher when children enter kindergarten and …
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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
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that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …
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Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore … relatively younger children to special needs services. The effect is persistent throughout compulsory schooling, resulting in …
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Education has a fundamental role in promoting the integration of students with an immigrant background in host … outcomes for students with an immigrant background as, among others, they need to overcome adversities related to displacement …, socio-economic disadvantage and language barriers. Building on the 2018 Report “The Resilience of Students with an Immigrant …
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gender segregation in occupational preferences. Students also differ by gender in selecting particular fields of employment … within status categories. These differences make up the horizontal segregation of students' expectations and, in PISA 2006 …
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also on the student’s progress through education, as those children who were the youngest in their grade cohort at entry … parents of the initial disadvantage experienced by the youngest children in their first years of school. The paper concludes … International Student Assessment (PISA), this paper provides a comparative analysis of the impact of a student’s month of birth on …
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