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The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …
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While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity‐quality trade‐off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125696
Strong intergenerational associations in wealth have fueled a longstanding debate over why children of wealthy parents … tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … and investor behavior as adults. The analysis is made possible by linking Korean-born children who were adopted at infancy …
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The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programs. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated unobservables, and endogenous group membership. We overcome these identification issues in the context of...
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quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as …, and that children of low income parents seem to be the primary beneficiaries of subsidized child care. These findings are … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316317
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534051
quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as …, and that children of low income parents seem to be the primary beneficiaries of subsidized child care. These findings are … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595386
While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity-quality trade-off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020793
The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799738