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Evidence on a causal link between family size and children’s education, as in the tradeoff suggested by Gary S. Becker … provincial OCP regulations and studying exclusively post-compulsory schooling outcomes of children that are subject to parental …
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Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which … findings suggest that wealth transmission is not primarily because children from wealthier families are inherently more …
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targeting children through two general policies, namely selective commodity taxation and cash transfer to family with children …There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical …
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This paper analyses whether employment termination has an impact on marital stability. Using discrete survival analysis techniques, we show that a husband’s involuntary job loss is associated with an increase in the risk of divorce by roughly 70 percent in the following period. The estimated...
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Pregnancy loss is often a traumatic event which may impact both parents and subsequent children. Using Norwegian … investment and family outcomes. We find that pregnancy loss improves maternal health investments in the subsequent pregnancy … market attachment, it has limited effects on children born after the loss. This suggests that investment in the next …
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This study investigates the role of family structure on cognitive outcomes of children. Using the rich panel data … changes in family structure. We find that children who stay-in or move-to non-intact families have lower reading scores than … that family structure affects the math performance of children of French heritage differently from those of other Canadian …
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While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores …
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