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Parental human capital investments in their children and the government debt : an inter-generational analysis

Park, Donghyun - 1996

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The effect of investment in children's education on fertility in 1816 Prussia

Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern economic growth. This paper contributes to the literature on the child quantity …

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Parent-child information frictions and human capital investment : evidence from a field experiment

Bergman, Peter - 2015

parents was provided de-tailed information about their child's academic progress. I frame the results in the context of a … persuasion game between parents and their children. Parents have upwardly-biased beliefs about their child's effort and the …

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Parental time investment and intergenerational mobility

Yum, Minchul - 2016

This paper investigates parental time investment in children prior to formal schooling as a source of intergenerational income persistence in the U.S. I develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where lifetime income endogenously persists across generations through multiple channels. My model...

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The intergenerational effects of economic sanctions

Moeeni, Safoura - 2021

While economic sanctions are successful in achieving political goals, can hurt the civilian population. These negative effects could be even more detrimental and long-lasting for future generations. I estimate the effects of economic sanctions on children's education by exploiting the United...

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The influence of parental and grandparental education in the transmission of human capital

Moreno M., A. Héctor - 2021

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Measuring investment in human capital formation : an experimental analysis of early life outcomes

Doyle, Orla; Harmon, Colm; Heckman, James J.; Logue, … - 2013

examine the impact of investment between utero to 18 months of age on a range of parental and child outcomes. Using the … program impact is concentrated on parental behaviors and the home environment, with little impact on child development at this … relatively short timeframe, yet continued investment may be required to observe direct effects on child development. While …

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Should early health investments work? : evidence from an RCT of a home visiting programme

Coy, Deirdre; Doyle, Orla - 2020

programme on child health. The treatment provides mentoring visits from pregnancy until school entry to improve child outcomes …

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Consequences of parental job loss on the family environment and on human capital formation : evidence from plant closures

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2019

We study the consequences of mothers' and fathers' job loss for parents, families, and children. Rich Swedish register data allow us to identify plant closures and account for non-random selection of workers to closing plants by using propensity score matching and controlling for...

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Preterm births and educational disadvantage : heterogeneous effects across families and schools

Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Barclay, Kieron; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2019

Using Swedish population register data on cohorts born 1982-1994 (N=1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as...

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