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Parental Investment in Childhood and Later Adult Well-Being: Can More Involved Parents Offset the Effects ofSocioeconomic Disadvantage?
Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
involvement and the gender ofthe parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlierpoverty, especially at … age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest inschool at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education. The … frequency ofoutings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education thanoutings with father, however, neither …
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Family Migration : A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the respondent parent on child morbidity both in the rural and urban settings...
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Tobacco and Alcohol : Complements or Substitutes? A Structural Model Approach
Tauchmann, Harald; Göhlmann, Silja; Requate, Till; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...
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Insurance versus Savings for the Poor:Why One Should Offer Either Both or None
Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Frölich, Markus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
This paper analyzes data from a novel field experiment designed to test the impact of twodifferent insurance products and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groupsamong rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is simulated by a lottery. Risk-sharing ispossible in solidarity...
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Modernisation and Son Preference
Burgess, Robin; Zhuang, Juzhong - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attractedinternational attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncoverthe factors which may be driving the emergence of these gender gaps.Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...
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The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience ofHuman Capability Formation
Heckman, James J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capitalapproach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skillformation. ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862597
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Academic Performance and Single-Sex Schooling:Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Switzerland
Eisenkopf, Gerald - Thurgauer Wirtschaftsinstitut <Kreuzlingen> - 2011
We study the effects of random assignment to coeducational andsingle-sex classes on the academic performance of female highschool students. Our estimation results show that single-sexschooling improves the performance of female students inmathematics. This positive effect increases if the...
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Ethnic Discrimination in Education: The Swiss Case
Bauer, Philipp; Sheldon, George - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2008
This paper investigates the role that discrimination plays in the educational marginalizationof foreign youth commonly observed in European countries with a long guestworkertradition. Economic theory offers two basic explanations for discrimination ofthis form: taste-based discrimination arising...
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Fachliche Zusammensetzung von Bildungsportfolios:Empirische Analyse eines Risk-Return Trade-Offs
Hammen, Anke - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2008
Nicht nur der höchste berufsqualifizierende Abschluss – wie oft angenommen – sondern der gesamte Bildungspfad wirkt sich auf den Erfolg im weiteren Erwerbsleben aus. Im Projekt wird die individuelle Zusammensetzung von Bildungskarrieren und deren Auswirkungen im Erwerbsverlauf untersucht....
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Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Ghatak, Maitreesh; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010
one's own group or if there is a preference for \marrying up". We then estimateactual preferences for caste, education …
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