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The child adoption marketplace : parental preferences and adoption outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary R.; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more. What are the underlying causes for the variability in child adoption expenses? While cost variability is widely acknowledged, the sources of the differentials have not been...
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Birth order and delinquency : evidence from Denmark and Florida
Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Doyle, Joseph J.; Figlio, … - 2017
Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...
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Parental and student time use around the academic year
Cowan, Benjamin; Jones, Todd R.; Swigert, Jeffrey - 2023
We demonstrate how mothers, fathers, and 15-17-year-old students alter their schedules around the K-12 academic year. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we document several notable results. First, mothers are...
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Parent-child information frictions and human capital investment : evidence from a field experiment
Bergman, Peter - 2015
This paper uses a field experiment to answer how information frictions between parents and their children affect … 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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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021 - This version: 10 June 2021
and the socioeconomic background of parents play a vital role in the early development of human cooperation. …
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The roots of cooperation
Bašić, Zvonimir; Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; … - 2021
influence of children's cognitive skills and parents' socioeconomic background on cooperation. …
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The short-run macro implications of school and child-care closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Kuhn, Moritz; Tertilt, Michele - 2020
situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the …
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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018 - This version: February 13, 2018
. Importantly, we find that socio-economic status of a family has no explanatory power as soon as we control for parents' economic …
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor);  … - 2008
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Parents' desire to make equal inter vivos transfers
Halvorsen, Elin (contributor);  … - 2008
This study argues that parents have a desire for dividing equally between their children, and that this motive applies … to the child or the children with greatest needs. When parents are drawn between these two ambitions, the degree of … inter vivos transfers behaviour. The data include information about stated attitudes towards transfers among the parents …
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