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Sibling differences in educational polygenic scores : how do parents react?
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, Anastasia - 2019
We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on parental preferences regarding inequality in the...
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Cheaper by the Dozen : Family Size Effects on Children’s Educational Attainment in Egypt
Rizk, Reham - 2019
Education is a crucial determinant of child quality. Economic theory and empirical research suggest a trade-off between … robust to several specification checks. We build on these findings to inform policy making in the areas of education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862799
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594542
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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925159
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577906
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The Twin Instrument : Fertility and Human Capital Investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018
Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908893
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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 due to unequal allocation of the particular resource...
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The Causal Effect of Maternal Education on Fertility Desire : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from China’s Compulsory Schooling Law
Liu, Chang; Wang, Peng - 2022
between maternal education and fertility desire in China. Our triple-difference strategy exploits the staggered implementation … promotes maternal education but decreases the fertility desire of the affected cohorts. Our instrumental variable estimate … further gauges that one additional year of education would decrease a woman’s fertility desire by 0.28. We present evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083191
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Preterm births and educational disadvantage : heterogeneous effects across families and schools
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Barclay, Kieron; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2019
Using Swedish population register data on cohorts born 1982-1994 (N=1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110249
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Birth order effects, parenting style, and son preference
Kim, Jun Hyung; Wang, Shaoda - 2021
While it is well known that there are systematic birth order effects on life cycle outcomes, there is less consensus about underlying channels and mechanisms of birth order effects. We ftnd negative birth order effects among Chinese adolescents, favoring earlier-born children within household in...
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