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Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolas; Zhu, Anna - 2016

We propose a household production function approach to human development in which the role of parenting style in child rearing is explicitly considered. Specifically, we model parenting style as an investment in human development that depends not only on inputs of time and market goods, but also...

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Parenting style as an investment in human development

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zhu, Anna - 2016

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Noncognitive skills, occupational attainment, and relative wages

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tan, Michelle - 2009

This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so …, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect … and women with similar noncognitive skills enter occupations at very different rates. Women, however, have lower wages on …

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Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

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Noncognative Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

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Taking chances: the effect of growing up on welfare on the risky behavior of young people

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ryan, Chris; Sartbayeva, Anastasia - 2009

We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people's involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link between family welfare history and risk taking disappears,...

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