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Parents’ Economic Support of Young-Adult Children : Do Socioeconomic Circumstances Matter?

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2012

This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they complete their education and enter the labor market is related to the family's socioeconomic circumstances. We address this issue using detailed survey data on intergenerational coresidence and financial...

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Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement : The Role of Institutions

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...

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Parental Responses to Children’s Achievement Test Results

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ho, Tiffany; Salamanca, Nicolas - 2021

We use quasi-experimental variation in the timing of national standardized test-score reports to estimate the causal impact of giving parents objective information about children’s academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more modest perceptions of academic achievement and reduced...

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Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tekin, Erdal - 2011

This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...

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Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolas; Zhu, Anna - 2016

We propose a household production function approach to human development that explicitly considers the role of parenting style in child rearing. Specifically, we model parenting style as an investment in human development that depends not only on inputs of time and market goods, but also on...

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Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2011

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Mental Health and Productivity at Work : Does What You Do Matter?

Bubonya, Melisa - 2016

Much of the economic cost of mental illness stems from workers' reduced productivity. We analyze the links between mental health and two alternative workplace productivity measures – absenteeism and presenteeism (i.e., lower productivity while attending work) – explicitly allowing these...

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Bias in the Legal Profession : Self-Assessed Versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination

Antecol, Heather - 2011

After the JD (AJD) study to compare standard Blinder-Oaxaca measures of earnings discrimination to self-reported measures of … that conventional measures of earnings discrimination are not closely linked to the racial and gender bias that new lawyers … believe they have experienced on the job. Statistical earnings discrimination is only occasionally related to increases in …

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Gender Gaps in Early Educational Achievement

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Moschion, Julie - 2015

This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies on unusually rich panel data from the Longitudinal...

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