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We study the role played by the standard of living during childhood on nest leaving. Using data from SHARE, we show empirically that individuals who grew up in a golden nest leave the parental home later and that education only partially mediates this effect. This relationship holds across...
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Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
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Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473714
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475183
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486016
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990882
Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s. We study how this shift affected … families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax returns, medical spending, educational attainment, and crime data. We find … criminal charges as young adults but do find evidence of intergenerational welfare transmission. …
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We study the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn significantly less than those who left them at their place of hukou...
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Two quasi-experiments are used to estimate the impact of parental divorce on the adult incomes and labour market behaviour of adolescents, as well as on their use of social programs, and their marital/fertility behaviour. These involve the use of individuals experiencing the death of a parent,...
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Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use temporary help service firms to help … place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen that these jobs are more likely to pay low wages, provide fewer … benefits, and offer less stability. We explore the effects of temporary help firms on the labor market outcomes of welfare …
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