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Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 … their mothers held non-traditional (pro-gender-equality) beliefs, even if they were not working themselves. Consistent with …
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This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...
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mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son correlations and analyses of intergenerational …
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Economic preferences – like time, risk and social preferences – have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences...
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This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and region as well as across the distribution of maternal...
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, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is …
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force participation of the wife of her son. These results indicate that the transmission of gender role attitudes …
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children. We contribute to this literature by analyzing whether gender role attitudes are also transmitted across cultural … boundaries, i.e., from immigrants to natives. Focusing on mixed couples, we examine whether the gender role attitudes of foreign … market participation is significantly positively related to the gender role attitudes in her mother-in-law's country of …
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We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational … persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …
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This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent … education norms gap in Bangladesh in recent years …
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