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Parents' desire to make equal inter vivos transfers

Halvorsen, Elin (contributor); … - 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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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010

parents. -- geography of the family ; child-to-parent time transfers …

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Globalization, gender and development : the effect of parental labor supply on child schooling

Ural Marchand, Beyza; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2011

households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions … affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro …

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Home with mom : the effects of stay-at-home parents on children's long-run educational outcomes

Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rege, Mari - 2013

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using...

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Early child care and child development : for whom it works and why

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2012 - First version: October 2009, This version: December 2012

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … German setting where high quality center-based care is severely rationed and use within state differences in child care … supply as exogenous variation in child care attendance. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel provides comprehensive …

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Birthweight and academic achievement in childhood

Chatterji, Pinka; Kim, Dohyung; Lahiri, Kajal - 2014

Research has shown that birthweight has a lasting impact on later-life outcomes such as educational attainment and earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide the link between birthweight and adult outcomes. Using...

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Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism

Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014

In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation …

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Family disadvantage and the gender gap in behavioral and educational outcomes

Autor, David H.; Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztopf; … - 2016

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...

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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014

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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(Why) do self-employed parents have more children?

Broussard, Nzinga; Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory - 2003

We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises the self-employed household s expected return to...

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