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The parental co-immunization hypothesis
Portela, Miguel; Schweinzer, Paul - 2013
We attempt to answer a simple empirical question: does having children make a parent live longer? The hypothesis we offer is that a parentś immune system is refreshed by a childś infections at a time when their own protection starts wearing thin. With the boosted immune system, the parent has...
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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten dids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the old may leave a bequest to their children. Within each...
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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 …
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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills: an investigation of the causal impact of families on student outcomes
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2021
The extensive literature on intergenerational mobility highlights the importance of family linkages but fails to … provide credible evidence about the underlying family factors that drive the pervasive correlations. We employ a unique … connection between cognitive skills of parents and their children by exploiting within-family between-subject variation in these …
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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Froebel's gifts : how the kindergarten movement changed the American family
Ager, Philipp; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020
Public educators and philanthropists in the late 19th century United States promoted the establishment of kindergartens in cities as a remedy for the social problems associated with industrialization and immigration. Between 1880 and 1910, more than seven thousand kindergartens opened their...
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Correlations of borther's earnings and intergenerational transmission
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2017
between siblings' earnings reflect shared community and family background. These earnings relationships capture important …
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Love your leave, don't leave your love! : paid parental leave and children's living arrangements
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017
We examine how a German paid parental leave reform causally affected early childhood living arrangements. The reform replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that the reform increased the...
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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
affected in terms of parental health, labor market outcomes and separations. Limited effects on family disposable income …
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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?
Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte - 2018
tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation … in one type of family versus another. Our findings show that family background matters significantly for children …
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