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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio - 2015
We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments....
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Intra-Household Insurance and the Intergenerational Transmission of Income Risk
Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
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"Golden Ages" : A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States
Fang, Hanming; Qiu, Xincheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the labor markets in China and the United States, the two largest economies in the world, by examining the … U.S., but decreased sharply from 55 to around 35 in China; second, the age-specific earnings grew drastically in China … similar in the U.S., but differed substantially in China. We propose and empirically implement a decomposition framework to …
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