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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 the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519857
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Parents' economic support of young-adult children : do socioeconomic circumstances matter?
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gorgens, Tue - 2012
This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they complete their education and enter the labor market is related to the family's socioeconomic circumstances. We address this issue using detailed survey data on intergenerational co-residence and financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532071
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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 - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118038
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The differential impacts of contingent employment on fertility: evidence from Australia
Wooden, Mark; Trong Anh Trinh; Mooi-Reci, Irma - 2021
Many studies have reported evidence of negative associations between fixed-term contract employment and fertility. With …, previous research has mostly not considered whether the effects of employment status on fertility might vary with other worker … associated with a significantly lower probability of first births among men. We also find that these negative fertility effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698642
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The Differential Impacts of Contingent Employment on Fertility: Evidence from Australia
Wooden, Mark; Trinh, Trong-Anh; Mooi-Reci, Irma - 2021
Many studies have reported evidence of negative associations between fixed-term contract employment and fertility. With …, previous research has mostly not considered whether the effects of employment status on fertility might vary with other worker … associated with a significantly lower probability of first births among men. We also find that these negative fertility effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882426
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The effect of early universal daycare on child weight problems : conference paper
Lauber, Verena; Thomas, Lampert - 2014 - Preliminary version
As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care. This is of special relevance as investments in the early periods of life are shown to be most important for a child’s long term development. Based on the German national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484381
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The stress cost of children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472536
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English proficiency and test scores of immigrant children in the US
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa - 2017
Immigrant children in the US tend to perform worse in reading, mathematics, and science compared to native children. This paper explores how much of such differences in achievement can be accounted for by a lack of English proficiency. To identify the causal effect of English proficiency on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672749
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Skill Development and Regional Mobility : Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants' training before they migrate — linking skill creation and skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052038
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775