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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences
Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034138
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585848
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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men
Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015
This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317905
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Schooling, marriage, and childbearing in Madagascar
Glick, Peter J.; Handy, Christopher; Sahn, David E. - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313105
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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
This paper demonstrates that a woman's propensity to separate from her husband or live-in partner depends positively on male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings power, the more likely a woman is to end her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385407
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Education in a marriage market model without commitment
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
income. They have the option of unilateral divorce and subsequent remarriage. Through this channel, the marriage market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310256
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Risk preference and child labour : econometric evidence
Frempong, Raymond Boadi; Stadelmann, David - 2020
more likely to send their children to work. Further analyses suggest that such outcomes are driven by the need to maximise … relationship between risk aversion and child labour is causal and that risk aversion induces higher probabilities of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200935
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Parental divorces and children's educational outcomes in Senegal
Crespin-Boucaud, Juliette; Hotte, Rozenn - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268386
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Development, fertility and childbearing age : a unified growth theory
Albis, Hippolyte d’; Greulich, Angela; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997471
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Development, fertility and childbearing age : a unified growth theory
Albis, Hippolyte d’; Greulich, Angela; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694493