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Dads and Daughters : Disentangling Altruism and Investment Motives for Spending on Children

Dizon-Ross, Rebecca; Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper tests whether mothers and fathers differ in their spending on their daughters relative to their sons. We compare mothers' and fathers' willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children, diverging from the previous literature's approach of comparing the expenditure effects...

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The (Lack of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment

Deshpande, Manasi; Dizon-Ross, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How does the expectation that a child will receive government benefits in adulthood affect parental investments in the child's human capital? Most parents whose children receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits overestimate the likelihood that their child will receive SSI benefits in...

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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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