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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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' prosocial attitudes are systematically related to elementary school children's prosociality. In a second step, we present … evidence on a randomly-assigned variation of the social environment, providing children with a mentor for the duration of one … gap in prosociality between low and high SES children. A mediation analysis of the observed treatment effect suggests that …
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We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we … offer is that a parent’s immune system is refreshed by a child’s infections at a time when their own protection starts …, 1991, and 2001, we are unable to reject this hypothesis. By contrast, we find in our key result that women with children …
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Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool …
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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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investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are … better recommendations to taller students. This holds even when controlling for academic achievement and parental background … respect to education policy, our findings suggest that early school tracking might increase disadvantages for students with …
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This paper addresses whether children's exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability …-age population rely on disability benefits, we find that the amount of time that children are exposed to their fathers receiving …
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In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of cultural differences on intergenerational altruism in Turkish people living in Turkey and in Germany, using the anthropological concept of worldview. Data were gathered from four surveys: nationwide surveys in Turkey and Germany, an online...
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This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary schooling in the 1960s. I find that hourly wages increase by 6%-8% per additional year of schooling. This result challenges prior findings...
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We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...
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