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have generated. This implies that parents from richer families, ceteris paribus, tend to guard against their children …We propose a model of parental altruism in relation with child habit formation, where children are unaware of their … the amount of income transferred to her child lower than the child would desire and (ii) reduces further income transfer …
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We examine and verify our hypothesis from a theoretical model that parents are more likely to be authoritative if they …
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educational levels of parents are considered key factors in explaining children's educational success. Nevertheless, the … literature has not reached consensus on the causal effects of parents' education on their child's schooling. This is because both … parents' and the child's schooling depend on unobserved heterogeneity. Moreover, the strong positive correlation of the mother …
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This paper analyzes what adult children would do for their parents were they frail and in need of long-term care …. Focusing on the special case of parents’ illness, the paper then investigates altruism in Japanese children. Descriptive … statistics show that about 30% of adult children living separately from their parents provide long-term in-home care, which …
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In this paper, we analyze the determinants of the living arrangements of elderly parents and their children (whether … elderly parents live with their children, and if so, with which child) in Japan using micro data from a household survey. We … find that the proportion of elderly parents living with their eldest sons is much higher than that of elderly parents …
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incorporating both educational investment from parents and educational borrowing. The analysis shows that in the case where … educational investment from parents and educational borrowing are substitutive, the relaxation of the borrowing constraint …
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Elite college attendance significantly impacts students' entrepreneurship decisions and career dynamics. We find that …
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This paper deals with the data of dormitory students in National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima College to …
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This paper investigates effects of forced marriages in the Pol Pot regime on educational investments for their children …
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We show evidence that receiving Japan's Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for literature has positive and negative effects on their recipients' longevity. Using a dataset covering both awards, we show that recipients of the Akutagawa Prize for rising novelists exhibit lower mortality than fellow...
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