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Numerous social marketing campaigns exhort parents to talk to their children about sexual abstinence and pregnancy … less strict parents, whose mothers gave birth as teenagers, or whose mothers communicate more about sex are more likely to … from mothers who were themselves teen mothers actually increases the probability a daughter has had sex. …
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We estimate the monetary return to attending a highly selective college using the College and Beyond (C&B) Survey linked to Detailed Earnings Records from the Social Security Administration (SSA). This paper extends earlier work by Dale and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between...
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likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers. By increasing the number of hours spent in school, the reform curtails … mothers. We find that access to full-day schools reduces the probability of becoming an adolescent mother among poor families …
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pregnancy, and earnings. Unlike much of the recent literature, we are able to separate school starting age from test age effects … positive effect on the probability of teenage pregnancy, but has little effect on educational attainment of boys or girls …
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The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...
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The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282563
mothers in reunified Germany, 1992-2009. During this time, East and West Germany share similar family policies, yet, the … regions differ markedly with regard to cultural orientations towards working mothers. Our comparison therefore allows drawing … mothers who were born and raised in the east, but had their first child after moving to the west provide us with key insights …
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little evidence that quantifies the causal effects of teen motherhood on such mothers and their first born children. This …
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This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...
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We estimate the effect of education on lifetime income in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in …
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