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Family Background and Gender Differences in Educational Expectations

Kleinjans, Kristin J. - 2020

Socioeconomic outcomes of parents and their children are more correlated for sons than for daughters. This paper … separating the effects of parental education and income …

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Child gender and parental borrowing: Evidence from India

Agier, Isabelle; Guérin, Isabelle; Szafarz, Ariane - In: Economics Letters 115 (2012) 3, pp. 363-365

Discrimination against girls is well-documented, especially in Asia. We show that women try to level the playing field for their daughters by taking on debt. But wealth asymmetry between mothers and fathers perpetuates gender inequality across generations.

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Parameter estimates comparison of earnings functions in the PSID and CPS data, 1976–2007

Gouskova, Elena - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 2, pp. 353-357

Comparing earnings equations in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the Current Population Survey, we find …

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Gender, productive ability and the perceived returns to education: Evidence from rural India

Chari, A.V.; Maertens, Annemie - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 2, pp. 253-257

Recent research has established the importance of perceived (as opposed to actual) returns as a determinant of educational investments. We analyze data from India to highlight gender disparities in the perceived returns to education and the salience of productive characteristics.

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The raising of the school leaving age: Returns in later life

Buscha, Franz; Dickson, Matt - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 2, pp. 389-393

Using the recently released UK Household Longitudinal Study we examine whether the raising of the school leaving age in 1972 had a permanent impact on earnings for individuals in their early 50s.

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Returns to education in professional football

Böheim, René; Lackner, Mario - In: Economics Letters 114 (2012) 3, pp. 326-328

After three years in college, football players face a trade-off between spending more time in college and pursuing a career in the National Football League (NFL). We analyze the salaries for rookies in the NFL and instrument the endogenous decision to enter the professional market with the month...

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How Important Is Cultural Background for the Level of Intergenerational Mobility?

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: Economics Letters 114 (2012) 3, pp. 335-337

Based on brother correlations in permanent earnings for different groups of second generation immigrants, the findings in this paper indicate that cultural background is not a major determinant of the level of intergenerational economic mobility.

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The causal effect of income on life satisfaction and the implications for valuing non-market goods

Ambrey, Christopher L.; Fleming, Christopher M. - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 2, pp. 131-134

windfall income (restricted windfall income) as a substitute for the more conventional household income monetary measure …. Results provide no evidence against the exogeneity of restricted windfall income and indicate that the causal effect of income … windfall income is used. Further research should be devoted to looking into the presence and size of measurement errors in …

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The disappearing gay income penalty

Clarke, Geoffrey; Sevak, Purvi - In: Economics Letters 121 (2013) 3, pp. 542-545

Since 1995, labor economists have reported on the income disparities between individuals who engage in same … the income gap has reversed over time from a penalty to a premium. …

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Income and democracy: Evidence from nonlinear estimations

Benhabib, Jess; Corvalan, Alejandro; Spiegel, Mark M. - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 3, pp. 489-492

We test the relation between income and democracy during the postwar period. We employ panel estimation methods that … find that the statistically significant positive income–democracy relationship is robust to the inclusion of country fixed …

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