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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 … the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of …
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Population policies, fertility, women's human capital, and child quality
Schultz, T. Paul - 2007
consequences of such family planning programs almost never assess their long-run consequences, such as on labor supply, savings, or … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider … independent of the reproductive preferences of parents or unobserved constraints that might influence family life cycle behaviors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268475
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Does more mean better? Sibling sex composition and the link between family size and children's quality
Baez, Javier E. - 2008
causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within … the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative … likely to enroll in school and about twice as likely to be held back in school. A larger family also increases the likelihood …
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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261955
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Alternative labor market policies to increase economic self-sufficiency: mandating higher wages, subsidizing employment, and raising productivity
Neumark, David - 2008
The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...
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Real wage inequality
Moretti, Enrico - 2008
A large literature has documented a significant increase in the return to college over the past 30 years. This increase is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas that are characterized by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268731
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An essay on real wage index numbers
Pencavel, John H. - 2011
Real wage index numbers have been used to measure movements in the standard of living of the typical worker. This paper describes some of these indicators for the United States and England. A new real wage index is proposed that resembles the sliding scale used to adjust wages in certain...
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Differences in quality of life estimates using rents and home values
Winters, John V. - 2012
Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in real wages where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured. Previous...
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Living arrangements in Western Europe: does cultural origin matter?
Giuliano, Paola - 2006
Why are there such large differences in living arrangements across Western European countries? Conventional economic analyses have not been successful in explaining differences in living arrangements and particularly the dramatic increase in the fraction of young adults living with their parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267568
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Entrepreneurship among married couples in the United States: a simultaneous probit approach
Parker, Simon C. - 2005
This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within couples is formulated and estimated. Empirical analysis reveals significant and substantial...
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