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Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and …. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score …
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We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little … attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities … countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters …
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Using large longitudinal survey data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this paper estimates the effect of maternal time inputs on early child development. We find that maternal time is a quantitatively important determinant of skill formation and that its effect declines with child age. There...
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for fathers. The presence of a childcare worker per child reduces the time cost of children to a couple of parents by 5% …This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The …
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welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and … working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, the study focuses on mono-nuclear families with children under …
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investments by college and non-college educated parents and their children widened up precisely during this first period … growing gaps in time investments between college and non-college educated parents. Competition for university places in the UK …
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amount of time parents spend with their children reading, playing or teaching them new things. We account for employment … children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational … status of parents, their socio-economic status and social and cultural norms they share. Our results show that employment …
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, spouses' wages, hours of work, and time spent with children to estimate the sensitivity of consumption and time allocation to … shocks. We find that behavioral responses to wage shocks depend on the presence of young children. We also find that labor …
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the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, we measure parental investments by considering the time parents spend with … development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using … endogeneity issues, we find that parents reinforce for differences in their child's socio-emotional skills, compensate for changes …
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and caring for household children. However, if their father is disabled, boys spend more time on food preparation and …
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