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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children

Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor); Lavy, Victor (contributor) - 2006

the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this … from one subsample suggest that first-born girls from large families marry sooner. -- fertility ; quantity-quality trade … the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this …

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The impact of Margaret Sanger's birth control clinics on early 20th century U.S. fertility and mortality

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Grimm, Michael; Hajo, Cathy Moran - 2023

administrative vital statistics, we find that birth control clinics accounted for 5.0-7.8% of the overall fertility decline until …

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Inequality in early care experienced by U.S. children

Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021

Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...

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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind

Antman, Francisca M. - 2012

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...

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Inequality during the early years : child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States

Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011

This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...

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Birth order and child outcomes : does maternal quality time matter?

Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2012

Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are due to unequal allocation of the particular resource...

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How do parents raise the educational attainment of future generations

Plug, Erik J. S. - 2002

The problem with most intergenerational mobility estimates is that unmeasured and inherited abilities prevent us from drawing inferences. In this paper we estimate the intergenerational mobility of schooling and exploit differences between adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically...

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Does universal preschool hit the target? : program access and preschool impacts

Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2017

Despite substantial interest in preschool as a means of narrowing the achievement gap, little is known about how particular program attributes might influence the achievement gains of disadvantaged preschoolers. This paper uses survey data on a recent cohort to explore the mediating influence of...

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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2017

headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for … lower fertility. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference among natives in their fertility decisions …, we do find a positive fertility effect, suggesting son preference in fertility among this group. This interpretation is …

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Missing data, imputation, and endogeneity

McDonough, Ian K.; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2016

Basmann (Basmann, R.L., 1957, A generalized classical method of linear estimation of coefficients in a structural equation. Econometrica 25, 77-83; Basmann, R.L., 1959, The computation of generalized classical estimates of coefficients in a structural equation. Econometrica 27, 72-81) introduced...

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