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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 … much on schools and adolescent remediation strategies to solve problems that start in the preschool years. Policy should …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129926
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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics
Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2010
I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two-period overlapping generation model I show that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137248
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The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply : Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Nizalova, Olena Y. - 2010
This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care supply, this study employs instrumental variable technique to account for the fact that the wage rate is likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137788
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The Effects of Children's ADHD on Parents' Relationship Dissolution and Labor Supply
Kvist, Anette Primdal - 2011
This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder (ADHD). Ten years after birth, parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have a 75% higher probability...
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Following in Your Father's Footsteps : A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and Their Sons
Amin, Vikesh - 2011
We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair level when estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120135
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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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United But (Un-)Equal : Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract
Cremer, Helmuth - 2012
This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education resources) is optimal with no divorce risk. Symmetry in education (both spouses receive an equal...
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The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2012
Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family … return decision. Using administrative panel data on the entire population of recent family immigrants to The Netherlands, we … for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration and the divorce processes. The family migrants are divided …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099720
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What Effects Do Macroeconomic Conditions Have on Families' Time Together?
Morrill, Melinda Sandler - 2012
We examine family time together using data from the 2003-2010 American Time Use Survey combined with Bureau of Labor … sets of results for family time together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106649
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Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?
Bratberg, Espen - 2012
specifications, including family fixed effects …
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