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Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers

Ichino, Andrea - 2011

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical …

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Like Mother, Like Child? The Rise of Women's Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States

Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023

We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on … substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US, while the more predominantly studied father-son measures remained … in the US relative to Sweden. We develop a model to quantify the relative roles of parent human capital, employment, and …

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2006

A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a causal quot;quantity-quality tradeoff,quot; then policies that discourage large families should lead to increased human...

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Does Early Child Care Help or Hurt Children's Development?

Felfe, Christina - 2014

More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care before age 3 have better or worse language and motor skills, socio-emotional maturity, and school readiness just before entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000...

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Partial Identification of the Long-Run Causal Effect of Food Security on Child Health

Millimet, Daniel L. - 2013

Food security and obesity represent two of the most significant public health issues. However, little is known about how these issues are intertwined. Here, we assess the causal relationship between food security during early childhood and relatively long-run measures of child health....

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Treatment Effects and the Measurement of Skills in a Prototypical Home Visiting Program

Heckman, James J. - 2020

This paper evaluates the causal impacts of an early childhood home visiting program for which treatment is randomly assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We identify average treatment effects of skills on performance...

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The Effect of Childhood Conduct Disorder on Human Capital

Koning, Pierre - 2010

This paper estimates the longer-term effects of childhood conduct disorder on human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour later in life using data of Australian twins. We measure conduct disorder with a rich set of indicators based on diagnostic criteria from psychiatry. Using...

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The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills : Evidence from Parental Deaths

Adda, Jerome - 2011

This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as on labor market outcomes. We exploit a large administrative data set covering many Swedish cohorts. We develop new estimation methods to tackle the potential endogeneity...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins

Lundborg, Petter - 2011

In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our...

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