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The American Family in Black and White : A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality
Heckman, James J. - 2011
inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129926
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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Palacios, Robert J. - 2020
Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833862
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Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Gunnsteinsson, … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
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Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment : Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem
Johnston, David W. - 2011
personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational progress. Our contribution is to use … progress. Maternal education and mental health, family income, and major adverse life events, are all significant in explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121757
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Death, Happiness, and the Calculation of Compensatory Damages
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007
This paper studies the mental distress caused by bereavement. The largest emotional losses are from the death of a spouse; the second-worst in severity are the losses from the death of a child; the third-worst is the death of a parent. The paper explores how happiness regression equations might be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775562
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Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Raaum, Oddbjorn - 2007
family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775849
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The Effect of Family Structure on Parents' Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom
Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2006
estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on primary and passive child care and on market … work, using a system of correlated Tobit equations and family structure equations. Estimates from these models indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779029
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Examining the Determinants of Agency Work : Do Family Friendly Practices Play a Role?
Heywood, John S. - 2006
demand. Family friendly practices are viewed as either increasing or decreasing such ability, depending upon their influence … family friendly practices that make core workers better off without expanding contingent agency jobs, and those that do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779049
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Following in Your Parents' Footsteps? Empirical Analysis of Matched Parent-Offspring Test Scores
Brown, Sarah - 2009
In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent test scores of their offspring measured in 1991. Our results suggest that how the parent performs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764692
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The Effect of Family Disruption on Children's Personality Development : Evidence from British Longitudinal Data
Prevoo, Tyas - 2014
This research documents the effects of different forms of family disruptions – measured by separation, divorce and … significant correlations between family disruptions prior to the age of 16 and personality development in early childhood …. Parental divorce has the largest negative effect on a child's personality development. Family disruptions have smaller effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039590