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The construction of European education policy builds on a widely shared goal of transparency in qualifications, upheld by the popular narrative of mobile students endowed with scholarships from the EU Erasmus programme, which allow them to transfer credit points between universities and across...
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This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence...
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lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay emancipation. We provide aggregate evidence …
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Money parents give their adult children may be important for the financing of a child's education or a first home … poor households do not. In this paper, we first examine annual gifts of money from parents to adult children in the United … monetary giving to children across families and within a family. We found that in all countries, some parents gave money to …
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daughters, as well as with other economic and sociodemographic variables. We estimate these correlations using data on parents … probit specification that exploits step-parents in the data to allow us to decompose nature from nurture effects. Our …
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daughters, as well as with other economic and socio-demographic variables. We estimate these correlations using data on parents … probit specification, that uses step-parents in the data, to allow us to distinguish nature effects from nurture effects. Our …
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