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Season of birth and marital outcomes
Oreffice, Sonia - 2014
This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship status. For couples, additional analysis considers who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010387916
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Estimating the effect of family formation on disorientation and psychological well-being using matching methods
Sironi, Emiliano - In: Rivista internazionale di scienze sociali 124 (2016) 1, pp. 61-84
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549115
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Education and labor market activity of women : an age-group specific empirical analysis
Münch, Claudia; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2009
We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
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Is welfare dependency inherited? : estimating the causal welfare transmission effects using Swedish sibling data
Edmark, Karin; Hanspers, Kajsa - 2011
This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404829
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Birth order matters : the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment
Booth, Alison L. (contributor); Kee, Hiau Joo (contributor) - 2005
We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree … to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off … between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a family. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003053137
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The Impact of Family Composition on Educational Achievement
Chen, Stacey; Chen, Yen‐Chien; Liu, Jin-Tan - 2021
Parents preferring sons tend to have more children until a boy is born and concentrate investment in boys for a given number of children (sibsize). Thus, having a brother may affect a child's education in two ways: an indirect effect by keeping sibsize lower and a direct rivalry effect where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233407
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Birth Order, Educational Attainment and Earnings : An Investigation Using the Psid
Kantarevic, Jasmin; Mechoulan, Stéphane - 2021
the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth … family fixed effects estimations, we find that being first-born confers a significant educational advantage that persists …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318224
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Birth Order Matters : The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment
Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Looi - 2021
We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree … to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off … between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might adversely affect the production of child quality within a family. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318337
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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
Bjorklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundstrom, Marianne - 2021
children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … is correlated with lower educational attainment. In this paper we compare the relationships between family structure and … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319100
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Observable and Unobservable Household Sharing Rules : Evidence from Young Couples' Pocket Money
Lee, Jungmin - 2021
The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that who gets what is significantly dependent upon who earns how much. However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of relative earnings on intra-household resource allocation because households jointly decide both labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319111