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Guo, Rufei; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2022

the traditional agricultural economy to modern economic growth, household real income increases, fertility decreases, and … twin births, child sex composition, and family planning policies, to identify the causal effect of fertility on child …

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Do Family Wealth Shocks Affect Fertility Choices? Evidence from the Housing Market Boom and Bust

Lovenheim, Michael - 2010

housing wealth causes a 0.07 percent increase in fertility. We find little effects of MSA-level housing price growth on the …While there is a great deal of literature focusing on the relationship between income and fertility, little is known … about how wealth affects fertility decisions of the household. This paper fills this gap in the literature by investigating …

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Income-based family typology and child development : evidence from the UK

Meroni, Elena Claudia; Verga, Francesca - 2023

Our paper contributes to the literature studying how household conditions can influence children's development, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative earnings. The traditional "male-breadwinner" model is no...

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Bequests, Inheritances and Family Traditions

Cox, Donald - 2009

Do quot;family traditionsquot; influence bequest behavior? If an individual receives an inheritance from his parents, is he more likely to give a bequest to his children, even after controlling for the boost in wealth conferred by the inheritance? Family traditions are pertinent to a host of...

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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories

Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020

We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...

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Parental responses to children's achievement test results

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ho, Tiffany; Salamanca, Nicolás - 2021

We use quasi-experimental variation in the timing of national standardized test-score reports to estimate the causal impact of giving parents objective information about children's academic achievement. Releasing test scores leads to more modest perceptions of academic achievement and reduced...

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Intergenerational transmission of authoritative parenting style : evidence from Japan

Zhang, Lin; Ikeda, Shinsuke - 2017

We examine and verify our hypothesis from a theoretical model that parents are more likely to be authoritative if they are from a wealthy family. Using the data from the Preference Parameters Study of Osaka University, Japan, we find that there are significantly positive associations between...

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Welfare-Enhancing Parental Altruism and Children’s Habit Formation

Zhang, Lin; Ikeda, Shinsuke - 2016

We propose a model of parental altruism in relation to children’s habit formation, as children are unaware of their developing habits while young and only become cognizant with age. We show that an altruistic mother (1) maintains the amount of income transferred to her child lower than the...

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Chapter 58 Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions

Cox, Donald; Fafchamps, Marcel - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3711-3784). 2007

What do we know about the role of extended families and kinship networks for redistributing resources? What gaps in our knowledge most need to be filled? How can we best organize current work and identify priorities for future research? These questions are important for several reasons:...

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Family Size and Children Quality : New Evidence and New Exogenous Shocks in the Case of Colombian Households

Zárate, Román - 2013

The interaction between family size and children quality has been a recurring topic in the economics of family. However, there is scarce evidence in Latin America, and the literature has not yet explored new mechanisms to explain either positive or null effects of an additional sibling found by...

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