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naturalized children of guest workers, ethnic Germans, EU and third country immigrants. In line with previous research, I find … less adversely affected by low parental education than are the children of native Germans. …
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We identify earnings impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention in Sweden, using individual linked administrative data to trace potential mechanisms. Leveraging quasi-random variation in eligibility, we estimate that exposure was associated with higher test scores in primary school for...
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. We assess this approach by comparing directly evaluations from parents, teachers, children and psychiatrists of three …Research on the socioeconomic determinants of health is often based on parental assessments of their children?s health … turn results in systematic differences in the estimated magnitude and significance of the health-income gradient …
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the educational attainments of parents and those of their children overstates considerably the causal effect of parents …The paper shows that parents? education is an important, but hardly exclusive part of the common family background that …? education on the education of their children. Our estimates based on Norwegian twin-mothers indicate that an additional year of …
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Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that their occurrence is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence challenging this premise. Using data on about 18 million births in 72 countries, we find that maternal...
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This paper proposes a method to estimate intergenerational mobility that takes into account the multidimensionality of the phenomenon. The first premise is that status is unobserved; hence, it must be analysed through latent variable and factor analysis models. The second premise is that the...
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parents play in the formation of deep green political attitudes in their children. Using a series of multiple logistic … regressions on a pooled sample of children aged 11 to 16 (n=6,590) it is observed that compared to any other political party the … fathers on their children and provided the parent is more likely to be politically aligned with ideals of ecologism, this …
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a cohort of English teenagers in compulsory education. Our results support a situation in which parents "tax" their … children's earnings, withdrawing financial support as the child increases his working hours. This strategy forces the child to …
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Using EU-SILC data for 2005 and 2011, we compare the role of family background on labour outcomes in three EU countries that experienced large swings in unemployment during this period. We use a multidimensional family background indicator that avoids undesirable cohort effects. Our results...
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mothers' economic well-being. Using 25-years of longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 1990 to … parenthood is as strongly linked to reduced income as partner absence. Comparing how these different routes to single motherhood … affect economic outcomes, I show that previously married mothers face larger income penalties than those who were single when …
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