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, conditional on having one elder and one school-age child living in the household. I find that cultural factors (proxied by …
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This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...
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presents new evidence on the child-quantity/child-quality trade-off. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation in … presents new evidence on the child-quantity/child-quality trade-off. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation in …
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lower bounds on the trade-off between family size and average child quality. Our estimates indicate that, at least in one … area of China, an extra child at parity one or at parity two, net of birthweight effects, significantly decreases the … do not identify family size effects but are confounded by inter-child allocation effects because of the birthweight …
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We examine the second-best family policy under the assumption that both the number and the future earning capacities of the children born to a couple are random variables with probability distributions conditional on unobservable parental actions. Potential parents take their decisions without...
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The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling investment than his brother, he will obtain 0.7 yuan more...
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This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...
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composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …: There is considerable evidence of welfare regime effects on parent-child shared time. Our results provide mixed support for … the hypothesis that noncare related parent-child time is human capital enriching. The strongest support is found in the …
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This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle investment framework is the foundation for understanding the origins of human inequality and for...
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