Similar Search Results

How do parents perceive the returns to parenting styles and neighborhoods?

Kiessling, Lukas - 2020

This paper studies parental beliefs about the returns to two factors affecting the development and long-term outcomes of children: (i) parenting styles defined by the extent of warmth and control parents employ in raising children, and (ii) neighborhood quality. Based on a representative sample...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242757

Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind

Antman, Francisca M. - 2012

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548641

Family disadvantage and the gender gap in behavioral and educational outcomes

Autor, David H.; Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztopf; … - 2016

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482631

Television, cognitive ability, and high school completion

Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016

We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We find that higher exposure to commercial television reduces cognitive ability and high school...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449853

Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind

Antman, Francisca - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104680

The Returns to Parental Health : Evidence from Indonesia

Luca, Dara Lee - 2018

health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our … health appears to be more linked to child schooling outcomes, especially for girls. When both parents are in poor health, the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906484

Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes

Autor, David H. - 2016

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 – 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988233

Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind

Antman, Francisca - 2010

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on child education is complicated by the likelihood that factors … influencing parental migration also affect child educational attainment. This paper exploits variation in siblings' ages at the … time of parental migration to get around this endogeneity problem, arguing that parental migration after a child is 20 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012716160

Maternal age and offspring human capital in India

Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020

. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419034

The effect of opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills in early childhood

Cyron, Laura; Schwerdt, Guido; Viarengo, Martina - 2016

We investigate the effect of having opposite sex siblings on cognitive and noncognitive skills of children in the United States at the onset of formal education. Our identification strategy rests on the assumption that, conditional on covariates, the sibling sex composition of the two firstborn...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576852

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last