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While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address this deficit by analysing the relationship between...
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allowing the marginal effects on children's outcomes of an increase in family income to vary across the income distribution …. Our nonlinear IV and fixed-effect estimates show an increasing, concave relationship between family income and children …
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harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national … representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … plant opened or closed in between the conceptions of different children in the same family. I find that children who were …
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This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes in adulthood in the European Union. We apply a potential outcomes approach to quantify those impacts and we provide a sensitivity analysis on possible unobserved confounders,...
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poverty of households with U.S. citizen children by 4 percent. The effect is robust to a number of identification tests …
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poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country …. For lone parents and sole breadwinners with a partner and children to support, net income packages at minimum wage are …
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understand what drives changes and differences in participation rates since the early 2000s, we build a unified empirical …
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investments in children with multiple periods of childhood, income shocks, imperfect insurance, dynamic complementarity, and …
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This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class size is a component of school...
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Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on economic performance. We find that usual suspects such as time spent in Germany and education have positive impact, while networks have no impact on integration. There is strong...
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