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Can children's education enhance formal female labor force participation?
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Poppe Yanez, Gunnar - 2024
quality, partly due to the substantial presence of the informal sector. This paper examines the case of Bolivia, which has the … education in Bolivia provides an additional explanation for the reduction in female participation in the informal sector, as … that the rise in primary school enrollment in Bolivia explains up to 40% of the decline in female workers under age 40 in …
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The long-term consequences of a golden nest
Angelini, Viola; Bertoni, Marco; Weber, Guglielmo - 2020
We study the role played by the standard of living during childhood on nest leaving. Using data from SHARE, we show empirically that individuals who grew up in a golden nest leave the parental home later and that education only partially mediates this effect. This relationship holds across...
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The effect of parental and grandparental supervision time investment on children's early-age development
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021
provision on children's cognitive, social and behavioral development at an early age. We identify the effects of interest … investment of grandparents on the socio-behavioral development and the picture similarities measure of cognitive ability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012508068
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Grandparents, moms, or dads? why children of teen mothers do worse in life
Aizer, Anna; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
Women who give birth as teens have worse subsequent educational and labor market outcomes than women who have first births at older ages. However, previous research has attributed much of these effects to selection rather than a causal effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still...
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Lessons from Denmark about inequality and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Landersø, Rasmus - 2021
Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high levels of income mobility across generations. It has in place many social policies now advocated for adoption in the U.S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family...
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Spatial segregation and socio-economic mobility in European cities
Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit; Vuijst, Elise de; … - 2016
Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...
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The Scandinavian fantasy : the sources of intergenerational mobility in Denmark and the U.S.
Landersø, Rasmus; Heckman, James J. - 2016
This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries....
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"Inequality is the root of social evil," or maybe not? : two stories about inequality and public policy
Corak, Miles - 2017
Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard & Poor's, is talking about it. But these conversations about what are arguably the most significant changes in the distribution of incomes and earnings since the 1940s are leading...
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Does segregation reduce socio-spatial mobility? : evidence from four European countries with different inequality and segregation contexts
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017
The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class structures of societies and in the ability of people to leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We study the...
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Athletes greatly benefit from participation in sports at the college and secondary level
Fakhoury, Anthony; Fakih, Ali - 2021
The recent Supreme Court decision NCAA vs Alston (June 2021) has heightened interest in the benefits and costs of participation in sports for student athletes. Anecdotes about the exploitation of student athletes were cited in the opinion. This paper uses panel data for two different cohorts...
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