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Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling within Twin Pairs?

Lundborg, Petter - 2011

A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under the assumption that educational attainment is random within twin pairs. This exogeneity assumption has been commonly questioned, however, but there is to date little evidence on...

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Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective

Rainer, Helmut - 2010

adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …

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Growth in the Shadows : Effect of the Shadow Economy on U.S. Economic Growth Over More than a Century

Goel, Rajeev K. - 2017

This paper provides a long-term view by studying the effect of the underground or shadow economy on economic growth in the Unites States over the period 1870 to 2014. Shadow activities might spur or retard economic growth depending on their interactions with the formal sector and impacts on the...

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