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The long-run impact of childhood poverty and the mediating role of education
Bellani, Luna; Bia, Michela - 2017
This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636682
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Economic uncertainty, parental selection, and children's educational outcomes
Chevalier, Arnaud; Marie, Olivier - 2015
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children born during this nativity slump perform worse from an early age onwards. Consistent with negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513403
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Childhood homelessness and adult employment : the role of education, incarceration, and welfare receipt
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Zhu, Anna - 2015
This paper analyzes the long-term consequences of children experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308437
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Intergenerational transmission of human capital : is it a one-way street?
Lundborg, Petter; Majlesi, Kaveh - 2015
children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309021
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Fetal malnutrition and academic success : evidence from Muslim immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
administered by the Danish Ministry of Education. Our results indicate that fetal exposure to Ramadan has a negative impact on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337122
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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis". An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317637
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Does in utero exposure to illness matter? : the 1918 influenza epidemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment
Lin, Ming-Jeng; Liu, Elaine M. - 2014
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356829
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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258168
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Transfers within a three generations family : when the rotten kids turn into altruistic parents
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The young enjoy their education, while the … period and that parents invest in the education of their children. We show that Becker's rotten kids theorem holds for the … single period game in that informal aid is set according to an efficient rule. However, education is distorted upwards. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370150
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A validation study of transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on the third generation offspring's economic and health outcomes potentially driven by epigenetic imprinting
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014
exposed. We do not find robust effects on the probability of obtaining an upper secondary education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252665