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We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...
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We quantify intergenerational and assortative processes by comparing different degrees of kinship within the same generation. This "horizontal" approach yields more, and more distant kinship moments than traditional methods, which allows us to account for the transmission of latent advantages in...
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We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...
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Africa, droughts increase the hazard into early marriage, while in India, droughts decrease the hazard. We argue that the …In this paper, we examine the impact of variation in local economic conditions on the hazard into child marriage (i ….e. prior to age 18) among young women in Africa and India. We show that rainfall shocks, a major source of income variation in …
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