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Whether siblings of specific birth order perform differently has been a longstanding open empirical question. We use the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth order implies a distinct educational advantage, and whether...
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their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …
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incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled … rewards were offered. The program also led to some effects in each of the three areas of education, health and work, although …
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effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …
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the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. …
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At least a quarter of college students in the United States graduate with more than one undergraduate major. This paper investigates how students decide on the composition of their paired majors - in other words, whether the majors chosen are substitutes or complements. Since students use both...
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the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …) effect education on growth measured in the empirical literature. -- compulsory schooling reforms ; dynamic skill accumulation … ; comparative advantages ; returns to schooling ; education and growth ; dynamic discrete choice ; dynamic programming …
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and not pursuing additional education. Exposure to a higher unemployment rate at age 17 is associated with higher …
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when considering earnings; being last-born confers none. -- birth order ; family size ; education …
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their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …. -- family size ; birth order ; education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003053137