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attainment and labor market outcomes of both sons and daughters are strongly related to both parents‘ cognitive and non …
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attainment and labor market outcomes of both sons and daughters are strongly related to both parents' cognitive and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320197
This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely … set of household level factors, the sibling analysis provides no support for a causal effect of parents’ welfare benefit … receipt on children’s future welfare use …
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This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying second generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is significant transmission of trust on the mother's side. The transmission is stronger in Northern Europe. Ancestry from more...
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Twins-based estimates of the return to schooling feature prominently in the labor economics literature. The validity of such estimates hinges critically on the assumption that within-pair variation in schooling is explained by factors which are unrelated to wage earning ability. This paper...
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on income. For those that are defined as self-employed, I find positive effects on income from self-employment, and … negative effects on income from wage employment. This finding suggests that the lower taxes caused the self-employed to …
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We study the impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on economic performance in Sweden. The pandemic was one of the severest and deadliest pandemics in human history, but it has hitherto received only scant attention in the economic literature - despite important implications for modern-day...
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In this paper, we first present novel evidence of grading bias against women at the university level. This is in contrast to previous results at the secondary education level. Contrary to the gender composition at lower levels of education in Sweden, the teachers and graders at the university...
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efficacy among students. There is, however, a lack of research on whether mock elections in schools enhance voter turnout in …
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academic performance of college students. As expected, the intervention increases physical activity. The main result is that it … generates a strong and significant improvement in academic performance, particularly for students who struggled at the baseline … in terms of lifestyle habits. We also provide evidence on the underlying mechanisms: Students who were incentivized to …
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