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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 …
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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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Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education may make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment outcomes of … inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive interventions to …
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outcomes. Research in this area has been limited because of the difficulty identifying the causal effect of childcare price on …
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persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter …
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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
Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of …
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terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself … as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …
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market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age …
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