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The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525028
The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528214
We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility … outcomes ; family structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523454
We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009409042
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239113
The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By … using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we … study how the family's role in human capital production evolved over this period. We find firstborn premiums for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544686
Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using … a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322793
Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using … a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014307094
Public policies often target individuals but within-family externalities of such interventions are understudied. Using … a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309603
We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish … Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321413