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Parents' Desire to Make Equal Inter Vivos Transfers

Thoresen, Thor O. - 2008

to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of … income compensation should be stronger in one-child families and we expect the altruism motive to dominate the equal division …

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Local Economic Consequences of Investment in Children : Capitalization of Child Care Services

Borge, Lars-Erik - 2018

resources in early childhood also affects the working of the local economy. Geographic variation in child care services … universal child care during a period of national reform to raise and equalize the child care coverage across Norway. We apply a … level data about quantity and quality of child care and various community controls. Given a reform driving the expansion of …

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Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies

Canta, Chiara - 2018

We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of informal care, which is assumed to be observable while children's altruism is not. The traditional...

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves : Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

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The Formation of Prosociality : Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

Kosse, Fabian - 2018

. In a first step, we show that socioeconomic status (SES) as well as the intensity of mother-child interaction and mothers …

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Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?

Fagereng, Andreas - 2018

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...

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Let the Little Children Come to Me

Portela, Miguel - 2018

We document the relationship of a set of individual choices - including parenthood, marital state, and income - with an individual's cause of death. Using the data set of the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS-LS) which follows one percent of the population of England and...

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Subsidies, Information, and the Timing of Children's Health Care in Mali

Sautmann, Anja - 2016

We study how healthcare subsidies and improved information affect over- and under-use of primary healthcare in a randomized control trial of 1544 children in Mali. In a dynamic model of healthcare demand, misuse relative to policymaker preferences (here given by WHO care-seeking standards)...

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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior : Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices

Sutter, Matthias - 2015

According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...

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Does Maternal Education Affect Childhood Immunization Rates? Evidence from Turkey

Ozer, Mustafa - 2017

We study the causal effect of maternal education on childhood immunization rates. We use the Compulsory Education Law (CEL) of 1997, and the differentiation in its implementation across regions, as instruments for schooling of young mothers in Turkey. The CEL increased the compulsory years of...

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