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the fraction of young adults living with their parents in Mediterranean Europe. This paper presents a cultural … receives support from data on the living arrangements of second-generation immigrants in the US. Both in 1970 and 2000, by … country of origin, the US living arrangements of second-generation immigrants mimic those in Europe across countries …
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We compile data on the locations of abortion providers and enforcement of parental involvement laws to document dramatic increases in the distances minors must travel if they wish to obtain an abortion without involving a parent or judge. Between 1992 – the year the U.S. Supreme Court...
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crime as well as peer effects that determine youth criminal activities. This paper ex-plores these channels by examining … gender-specific effects of maternal and paternal incarceration from both own-parents and classmate-parents. This paper also … reverse is true for peer paternal incarceration. These effects are strongest for youth reports of selling drugs and engaging …
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This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential … from parents to their children, there are large discrepancies with respect to the age group and the type of skill. The …
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prediction of our model, this evidence reveals an important role of parents in mediating the impact of neighborhoods on youth … develop a simple cultural transmission model where parents affect how society influences their children's decisions. The model … crime. The influence of parents is especially important for drug trafficking, assault and battery …
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countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters … models on multi-member household micro data on time use. Countries diverge concerning the association between parents and …
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We study the impact of higher education financing on the academic aspirations of teenagers and of their parents. We …
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a cohort of English teenagers in compulsory education. Our results support a situation in which parents 'tax' their …
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influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their children's peer groups. We … parental inputs and peers, and where parents can affect the peer group by restricting who their children can interact with. We … scaled up because parents' equilibrium responses push against successful integration with the new peer group …
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Although the strong positive correlation between parental educational expectations (PEE) and child academic achievement is widely documented, little is known about PEE's effects on child psychological outcomes and the mechanisms through which it may work. Hence, in this paper, using nationally...
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