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Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability?
Okumura, Tsunao - 2010
This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National … characteristics from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). The sociability relationship varies across parents and children by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135823
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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
intergenerational correlations are only able to capture parts of the influence of the family on children s cognitive and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336812
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Self-employment after socialism : intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009566561
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Self-employment after socialism : intergenerational links, entrepreneurial values, and human capital
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
Drawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development - parental role models - for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009544391
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Parents' years in Sweden and children's educational performance
Smith, Christopher D.; Helgertz, Jonas; Scott, Kirk - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-17
Sweden, on the educational performance of their children, using full Swedish population registry data for 22 cohorts … parents'country of origin. Results show a positive effect of parents' time in Sweden on their children's performance in … children' educational performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479201
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Do parents' social skills influence their chidren's sociability?
Okumura, Tsunao; Usui, Emiko - 2010
This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children’s sociability, using the U.S. National … characteristics from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). The sociability relationship varies across parents and children by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303457
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From the cradle to the grave : the effect of family background on the career path of Italian men
Raitano, Michele; Vona, Francesco - 2015
This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317905
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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
family on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and in line with previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318033
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016
of the influence of family on children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and … Fähigkeiten von Eltern an ihre Kinder auseinandersetzt, deutet darauf hin, dass intergenerationale Korrelationen nur einen Teil …
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
of the influence of family on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457886