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This paper assesses the impact of social factors on the development of allergic diseases in early childhood. Epidemiological research has shown increasing allergy rates with improvements in social economic status (SES). However, we argue that the pattern of social influences on allergies is too...
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' beliefs about the human capital production function and their preferences for inequality in children's outcomes, as well as … inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the …
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With the goal to shed more light on the effectiveness of parental time spent with their children, I estimate the causal … relationship between parental involvement and education outcomes of children. My research is the first which examines the effect of … characteristics of children as well as parents. To estimate causal treatment effects, I use a simple logistic regression along with a …
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for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market …
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We examine the effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We … family life. We make use of a novel representative survey of parental well-being collected in May and June 2020 in Germany …-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for individuals without children, accounting for …
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research identified substantial variation of wealth levels between different family types with children from single …, inequality between children from single-parent families is higher than for other family types and this inequality can only partly …Families’ economic wealth is a resource that can provide children with crucial advantages early in their lives. Prior …
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accompanying family members. Significant influences of the family situation, particularly considering the presence of children, and …An expatriate's family has a strong impact on his/her cultural adjustment. According to the family systems theory of … Minuchin (1974), there exist strong ties between expatriates, their partners, and their children which in turn influence their …
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We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our main conclusion is that while education may be...
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This paper proposes an explanation for the decrease in social mobility that has occurred in the last two decades in a number of advanced economies, as well as for the divergence in mobility dynamics across countries. Within an intergenerational framework, we show that a two-tier higher education...
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We use PIAAC data on the literacy and numeracy skills of 49,366 25-to-54-year-olds in 27 countries to shed new light on cross-national variation in the labor market disadvantage of less-educated adults (i.e., those who have not completed upper secondary education). Our empirical analysis focuses...
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