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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood
Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
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Education, gender and family formation
Virtanen, Hanna; Silliman, Mikko; Kuuppelomäki, Tiina; … - 2024
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Altruistic care for the elderly : a gender perspective
Minh Tam T. Bui; Vlaev, Ivo - 2021
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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores
Graetz, Georg; Öckert, Björn; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020
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Gender stereotypes in the family
Nicoletti, Cheti; Sevilla, Almudena; Tonei, Valentina - 2022
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Family and gender still matter : the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Isabel; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2002
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The rise of the added worker effect
Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016
We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od 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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Labour supply of married women in Poland : a microeconometric study based on the Polish labour force survey
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1995
In this paper, the labour supply of married women in Poland is studied using the Polish Labour Force Survey of February 1993 on three competing econometric models, viz. Tobit, Three Regime Tobit and Heckit. It is shown that the choice of model has an influence on conclusions drawn. In...
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Social location matters : inequality in work and family life courses at the intersection of gender and race
Aisenbrey, Silke; Fasang, Anette - 2018
Which constraints and privileges do members of empowered or disempowered groups face in combining work and family life … courses? To address this timely and highly relevant question, we empirically analyze work and family life courses at the …) to study parallel work-family trajectories of white and African American men and women combining an intersectional …
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