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Following in your parents' footsteps? : empirical analysis of matched parent-offspring test scores
Brown, Sarah; McIntosh, Steven; Taylor, Karl - 2009
In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent test scores of their offspring measured in 1991. Our results suggest that how the parent performs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808599
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Intergenerational effects of grandparental care on children and parents
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021 - First draft
Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in most OECD countries. Despite its relevance, the effects of child care provided by grandparents on child and parental outcomes have received little attention in the literature....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330626
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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? : intergenerational effects of grandparental care
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021
Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651659
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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? : intergenerational effects of grandparental care
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021
Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012666701
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Time investment by parents in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities
Sepahvand, Mohammad; Shahbazian, Roujman; Swain, … - 2013
We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different educational attainment. In a second step we also investigate this effect for three different child age cohorts. Past research shows that the degree of success in the labour market is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009745250
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2015 - This version: July 2015
than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by family background. Comparing these findings with those in the …This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates substantial influences of family background on skill formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318033
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Like brother, like sister? : the importance of family background for cognitive and non-cognitive skills ; conference paper
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2013
family background for skill formation. The study is based on a large representative German dataset, which includes IQ test … Maximum Likelihood (REML) model we find substantial influences of family background on the skills of both brothers and sisters … in cognitive skills are higher than 0.50, indicating that more than half of the inequality can be explained by family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336812
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016
, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background. Comparing these findings with …This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544273
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016 - This version: March 24, 2016
, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background. Comparing these findings with …This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457886
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016
, more than half of the inequality in cognition can be explained by shared family background. Comparing these findings with …This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family …-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458933