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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2013
of birth cohorts 1990 and 1987 as measure of human capital. The evidence suggest no significant overall impact of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329122
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The Effect of Parents' Employment on Children's Educational Attainment
Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2000
This paper presents the conditions under which a causal interpretation can be given to the association between childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in own consumption and children?s wellbeing, estimation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262421
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Childcare choices and child development : generous parental leave and affordable, high-quality childcare can foster childrens's abilities
Del Boca, Daniela - 2015
The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children can significantly increase cognitive outcomes in the short and long term and contribute to success later in life. One of the most important of these inputs is maternal time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430563
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The effect of skill level on the timing of childbearing and number of children
Alders, Peter - 1998
This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number ofchildren. Higher skilled women have less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the accumulation ofhuman capital by learning-by-doing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300566
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Birth order and child outcomes : does maternal quality time matter?
Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2012
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within … the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are … negative birth order effects on various test scores are only slightly diminished when maternal time is included among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613677
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Birth Order and Child Outcomes : Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?
Monfardini, Chiara - 2012
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within … the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are … negative birth order effects on various test scores are only slightly diminished when maternal time is included among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099745
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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
Weißhaar, Natalia - 2013
of birth cohorts 1990 and 1987 as measure of human capital. The evidence suggest no significant overall impact of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074887
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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment : New Evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas - 2008
framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773227
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Human capital and education policy : evidence from survey data
Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2021
Elisabeth Grewenig prepared this study while she was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2021 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of five distinct empirical essays that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012600116
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Parental leave and children's schooling outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from a large parental leave reform
Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2013
of birth cohorts 1990 and 1987 as measure of human capital. The evidence suggest no significant overall impact of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191211