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The impact of non-parental child care on child development: Evidence from the summer participation "dip"

Herbst, Chris M. - 2012

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive development, few studies deal convincingly with the potential endogeneity of child care choices. Using a panel of infants and toddlers from the Birth cohort of the Early Childhood...

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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada

Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010

This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds that there are significant differences in the degree of...

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The Effect of Parents' Employment on Children's Educational Attainment

Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2000

childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in … extent of mother?s full-time employment when the child was aged 0-5. The effects of mother?s part-time employment and father …?s employment are smaller and less well determined but again negative. In the context of our conditional demand function framework …

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Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance

Hotz, V. Joseph; Pantano, Juan - 2013

Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplinary environments in response to their...

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Do poor children become poor adults? Lessons from a cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility

Corak, Miles - 2006

A cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility is offered, and the reasons for the degree to which the long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ significantly in the extent to which parental economic status...

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Does child abuse cause crime?

Currie, Janet; Tekin, Erdal - 2006

Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because it is one of...

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Birth order, educational attainment and earnings: an investigation using the PSID

Kantarevic, Jasmin; Mechoulan, Stéphane - 2005

Whether siblings of specific birth order perform differently has been a longstanding open empirical question. We use the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth order implies a distinct educational advantage, and whether...

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Maternal employment and adolescent development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2005

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a … amounts of employment. The negative cognitive effects occur partly because maternal labor supply reduces the time these …

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Decision-making by children

Lundberg, Shelly; Romich, Jennifer; Tsang, Kwok P. - 2007

In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model of parental control of child behavior and child...

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Parents' incomes and children's outcomes: a quasi-experiment

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Copeland, William; Keeler, Gordon; … - 2008

Identifying the effect of parental incomes on child outcomes is difficult due to the correlation of unobserved ability, education levels and income. Previous research has relied on the use of instrumental variables to identify the effect of a change in household income on the young adult...

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