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Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...
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Growing reliance on student loans and repayment difficulties have raised concerns of a student debt crisis in the United States, but little is known about the effects of student borrowing on human capital and long-run financial well-being. We use variation induced by recent expansions in federal...
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In 2006, the federal government effectively uncapped student borrowing for graduate programs with the introduction of the Graduate PLUS loan program. Access to additional federal loans increased graduate students' borrowing and shifted the composition of their loans from private to federal debt....
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Growing reliance on student loans and repayment difficulties have raised concerns of a student debt crisis in the United States, but little is known about the effects of student borrowing on human capital and long-run financial well-being. We use variation induced by recent expansions in federal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014258270
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
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We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …
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Many countries have implemented childcare subsidies in an effort to help families; in the United States, the government created the Child Care and Development Fund in 1996, which provides public funds for childcare assistance to low-income families. Despite the importance of the issue, little is...
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Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics, the literature has...
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While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
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Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261633