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Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...

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Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents

Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2007

We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems, grade repetition and obesity. We address endogeneity of maternal schooling by instrumenting with variation in schooling costs when the mother grew up. Using matched data from...

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Locus of Control and its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation

Lekfuangfu, Warn N. - 2014

We propose a model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on the early skill formation of their children. This subjective belief is determined in part by locus of control (LOC), i.e., the extent to which individuals believe that their actions can influence...

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Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt

Baron, Juan D. - 2011

socialization within their families. Young people are more likely to oppose generous social benefits and adopt an internal view of …

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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years : An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2010

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such … as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the …

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Reading to Young Children : A Head-Start in Life?

Kalb, Guyonne R.J. - 2013

This paper investigates the importance of parents reading to their young children. Using Australian data we find that parental reading to children at age 4 to 5 has positive and significant effects on reading skills and cognitive skills of these children at least up to age 10 or 11. Our findings...

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Books are Forever : Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Income

Brunello, Giorgio - 2012

In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who had access to many or few books at age ten. We instrument years of education using reforms of...

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The Evolution of Secularization : Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence

Bar-El, Ronen - 2010

generation to the next one via two venues: (i) direct socialization – across generations, by parents; and (ii) oblique … socialization – within generations, by the community and cultural environment. This paper focuses on the transmission of religious …/findings are that (i) direct religious socialization efforts of one generation have a negative effect on secularization within the …

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