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The impact of family composition on educational achievement

Chen, Stacey H.; Chen, Yen-Chien; Liu, Jin-Tan - 2014

Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until one or more boys are born, and to concentrate investment in boys for a given sibsize. Therefore, having a brother may affect child outcomes in two ways: indirectly, by decreasing sibsize, and directly, where sibsize remains...

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Subjective Well-Being and the Family: Results from an Ordered Probit Model with Multiple Random Effects

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2004

The previous literature on the determinants of individual well-being has failed to fully account for the interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that allows to identify the intrafamily correlation in...

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Birth order matters: the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 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...

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Gender-specific effects of unemployment on family formation: a cross-national perspective

Schmitt, Christian - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence...

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Household membership decisions of adult children

Chiuri, Maria Concetta; Del Boca, Daniela - 2008

While several social, economic and financial indicators point to a growing convergence among European countries, striking differences still emerge in the timing of leaving home for adult children. In Southern countries (as Spain, Italy or Portugal) in 2001 more than 70 percent of young adults...

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Nineteenth century stature and family size: Binding constraint or productive labor force?

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented here to be positively related with family size. The...

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Subjective well-being and the family: Results from an ordered probit model with multiple random effects

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2004

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Zusammenhalt in Corona-Zeiten: Familienwissenschaftliche Perspektiven

Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor); … - 2021

Gegenteil. Corona hat nicht nur gezeigt, wie wichtig Familie für den Zusammenhalt im Privaten sein kann, sondern auch für den … Zusammenhalt in der Gesellschaft. Gleichwohl hat die Politik das Thema Familie am Beginn der Pandemie kaum wahrgenommen. Inzwischen … befinden. Mitglieder des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats für Familienfragen beim Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und …

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Family and consumer sciences research journal

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell; -2009: Thousand Oaks, … - 23.1994/95 -

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Journal of family and economic issues

New York, NY : Springer; 1992-2011: New York, NY : … - 13.1992 -

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