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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262388
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The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work?
Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002
The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262730
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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291343
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Female labour force participation and child education in India: The effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012
We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other … hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284016
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Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility) and asked to state their probabilistic choices. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537997
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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes …. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this selection problem by looking within the family to exploit variation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287686
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Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice
Heineck, Guido; Wölfel, Oliver - 2010
educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600986
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Parental risk attitudes and children's secondary school track choice
Heineck, Guido; Wölfel, Oliver - 2010
educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine children's secondary school track choice in … paternal risk preferences but a strong negative impact of maternal risk aversion on children's enrollment in upper secondary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274690
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Parental risk attitudes and children's secondary school track choice
Heineck, Guido; Wölfel, Oliver - 2010
welchen Einfluss Risikoeinstellungen von Eltern auf das Bildungsverhalten von Kindern ausüben. In der Studie untersuchen wir … educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine whether parent's risk attitudes relate to … children's secondary school track choice in Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286653
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The Effect of Parents' Employment on Children's Educational Attainment
Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2000
parents may compensate or reinforce children?s endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation … own consumption and children?s wellbeing, estimation is complicated by endowment heterogeneity and by the fact that … stronger assumptions about the timing of parents? knowledge of their children?s endowments and about the technology used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262421