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Pupil Achievement, School Resources and Family Background

Haegeland, Torbjörn; Raaum, Oddbjorn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021

Whether increasing resource use in schools has a positive effect on pupil performance has occupied governments, parents and researchers for decades. A main challenge when trying to answer this question is to separate the effects of school resources from the effects of pupils' family background,...

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Measuring Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education in Norway Using Educational Reforms

Aakvik, Arild; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Vaage, Kjell - 2021

The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability, financial constraints, family … problems into estimating the returns to education. In this paper, these problems are addressed by estimating a comparative … advantage model for schooling, in which the returns to education vary at different levels of education. The model requires that …

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Social protection and foundational cognitive skills during adolescence : evidence from a large public works programme

Freund, Richard; Favara, Marta; Porter, Catherine; … - 2022

Many low- and middle-income countries have introduced Public Works Programmes (PWPs) to fight poverty. PWPs provide temporary cash-for-work opportunities to boost poor households' incomes and to provide better infrastructure to local communities. While PWPs do not target children directly, the...

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Socioeconomic differences in the unemployment and fertility nexus: a comparison of Denmark and Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2013

Studies that have investigated the role of unemployment in childbearing decisions have often provided conflicting results. We argue that many of the inconsistencies of prior research may be attributed to a neglect of group-specific differences in behavior. In this study, we examine how the...

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Labor-market status, migrant status and first childbearing in Sweden

Lundström, Karin E.; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 25, pp. 719-742

During recent decades fertility in Sweden has evolved in tandem with the business cycle. Supported by social policies, both women and men tend to postpone starting a family until they have acquired a secure job with decent earnings. In this study we add to previous research by investigating how...

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Intergenerational Transfers in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Evidence from Rural Malawi

Kohler, Iliana V.; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Anglewicz, Philip; … - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 27, pp. 775-834

Intergenerational transfer patterns in sub-Saharan Africa are poorly understood, despite the alleged importance of support networks to ameliorate the complex implications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on families. We estimate the age patterns and the multiple directions of transfer flows in rural...

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Economic Uncertainty and Family Dynamics in Europe

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Andersson, Gunnar; Pailhé, Ariane - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 28, pp. 835-852

This special collection of Demographic Research is devoted to the issue of how economic and employment uncertainties relate to fertility and family dynamics in Europe. The collection is based on contributions to a workshop held in Berlin in July 2009, which in turn was stimulated by the onset of...

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Economic uncertainty and family dynamics in Europe (Introduction to special issue of Demographic Research)

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Andersson, Gunnar; Pailhé, Ariane - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

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Out of Sync? Demographic and other social science research on health conditions in developing countries

Behrman, Jere R.; Behrman, Julia; Perez, Nykia M. - In: Demographic Research 24 (2011) 2, pp. 45-78

In this paper, we present a framework for considering whether the marginal social benefits of demographic and social science research on various health conditions in developing countries are likely to be relatively high. Based on this framework, we argue that the relative current and future...

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Healthy(?), Wealthy, and Wise: Birth Order and Adult Health

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2015

While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores … to be overweight, to be obese, and to have high blood pressure and high triglycerides. So, unlike education or earnings … unaffected by conditioning on education and earnings, suggesting that these are not the only important pathways to health …

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