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This paper studies whether the impact of a cash transfer on child nutritional status is affected by the gender of its recipient. In the early 1990's, the benefits and coverage of the South African social pension program were expanded for the black population. In 1993, the benefits were about...
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Tightly knit extended families, in which people often give money to and get money from relatives, characterize many developing countries. These intra-family flows mean that public policies may affect a very different group of people than the one they target. To assess the empirical importance of...
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relationship between them. A FIG is a transfer from present to future generations, like parental investments in education and the …
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It is argued that a PAYGO system may have useful allocative functions in that it serves as an insurance against not having children and as an enforcement device for rotten kid' who are unwilling to pay their parents a pension. It is true that the system has amoral hazard effect in terms of...
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It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating …, immigrants experience higher persistence than natives in weight and BMI. We also find that mothers' education decreases children …
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Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S.. Americans are more optimistic than Europeans about social mobility. Our randomized treatment...
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We examine multi-generational impacts of positive in utero and early life health interventions using state-year variation in public health insurance expansions that targeted low-income pregnant women and children. We use restricted use Vital Statistics Natality files to create a unique dataset...
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We characterize intergenerational income mobility at each college in the United States using data for over 30 million college students from 1999-2013. We document four results. First, access to colleges varies greatly by parent income. For example, children whose parents are in the top 1% of the...
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higher education (the “lost generation”). Using data from a nationally representative survey, we compare cohorts who … lesser degree, even 40 years into their adulthood. However, they invested more in their children's education, and transmitted …
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This paper considers dynamic optimal income, education, and bequest taxes in a Barro-Becker dynastic setup. Parents can … transfer resources to their children in two ways: First, through education investments, which have heterogeneous and stochastic …. It is in general not optimal to make education expenses fully tax deductible and the optimal education subsidy, income …
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