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The role of parental income over the life cycle: A comparison of Sweden and the UK
Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Nybom, Martin - 2012
Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences show up already early in offspring's life in outcomes...
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The intergenerational transmission of human capital: Exploring the role of skills and health using data on adoptees and twins
Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan Olof - 2011
this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282495
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Civil wars beyond their borders: the human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees
Baez, Javier E. - 2008
local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268705
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Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: Evidence from eleven European countries
Doblhammer, Gabriele; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Fritze, … - 2011
With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to understand the determinants of cognitive ability among the elderly. To study effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321132
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Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: Evidence from eleven European countries
Doblhammer, Gabriele; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Fritze, … - 2011
changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280717
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Three Empirical Essays on the Long-Run Consequences of Early-Life Living Conditions
Neelsen, Sven - 2012
This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698336
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Investment in financial literacy and saving decisions
Jappelli, Tullio; Padula, Mario - 2011
We present an intertemporal consumption model of consumer investment in financial literacy. Consumers benefit from such investment because their stock of financial literacy allows them to increase the returns on their wealth. Since literacy depreciates over time and has a cost in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308561
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Early life conditions and financial risk-taking in older age
Christelis, Dimitris; Dobrescu, Loretti I.; Motta, Alberto - 2011
Using life-history survey data from eleven European countries, we investigate whether childhood conditions, such as socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life. After controlling for the corresponding conditions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308548
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Schools, skills, and synapses
Heckman, James Joseph - 2008
emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged families, (c) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274246
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Inequality during the early years: Child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … which children at the top of the SES distribution out-perform those in the middle. Third, disparities in social and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282315