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Maternal gender role attitudes, human capital investment, and labour supply of sons and daughters
Johnston, David W.; Schurer, Stefanie; Shields, Michael A. - 2012
the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …
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Intra-household resource allocation: Do parents educe or reinforce child cognitive ability gaps?
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shah, Manisha; … - 2010
Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing … determinant of cognitive ability. We find that parents invest more in high ability children, with a one standard deviation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274620
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Does breastfeeding support at work help mothers and employers at the same time?
Del Bono, Emilia; Pronzato, Chiara - 2012
This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding Survey, we model the joint probability to return to work and breastfeeding and analyse its association with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284022
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Elite dominance and under-investment in mass education: disparity in the social development of the Indian states, 1960-92
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2007
Inter- and intra-state disparities in levels of literacy rates in India are striking, especially for the marginalized groups of women and low caste population. The present paper offers an explanation of this disparate development in terms of elite dominance that discriminates against the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269246
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Human capital, economic growth, and inequality in China
Heckman, James J.; Yi, Junjian - 2012
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282331
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Does school integration generate peer effects? : Evidence from Boston's Metco program
Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Kevin - 2004
Most integration programs transfer students between schools within districts. In this paper, we study Metco, a long-running desegregation program that sends mostly Black students out of the Boston public school district to attend schools in more affluent suburban districts. Metco increases the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261665
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Education policy and equality of opportunity
Schütz, Gabriela; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2005
We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267527
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Fundamental determinants of school efficiency and equity: German states as a microcosm for OECD countries
Wößmann, Ludger - 2007
Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal system, but pursue different education policies. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268363
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The political economy of intergenerational income mobility
Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas; Moretti, Enrico - 2010
parental investment in children and endogenous redistributive institutions, we identify the structural parameters that govern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269607
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China's higher education expansion and its labor market consequences
Li, Shi; Xing, Chunbing - 2010
Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China's higher education expansion commenced in 1999 affects the education opportunities of various population groups and how this policy affects the labor market. Treating the expansion as an experiment and using a LATE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269776