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Sibling differences in educational polygenic scores : how do parents react?
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, Anastasia - 2019
parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents …We take advantage of recent advances in behavioral genetics to revisit a classic question in economics: how do parents … respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on …
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The quantity of education and preference for sons : evidence from Taiwan's compulsory education reform
Chen, Cheng; Chou, Shin-yi; Gimenez, Lea; Liu, Jin-tan - In: China economic review : an international journal 59 (2020), pp. 1-9
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Parents, siblings and schoolmates
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2018
We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We find that the benefits from exposure to...
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Parents, siblings and schoolmates : the effects of family-school interactions on educational achievement and long-term labor market outcomes
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2017
We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We find that...
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Son preferences and education inequalities in India
Congdon Fors, Heather; Lindskog, Annika - 2019
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Son preference and education Inequalities in India : the role of gender-biased fertility strategies and preferential treatment of boys
Congdon Fors, Heather; Lindskog, Annika - In: Journal of population economics : international … 36 (2023) 3, pp. 1431-1460
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Birth order and the gender gap in educational attainment
Oliveira, Jaqueline - In: Review of Economics of the Household 17 (2019) 3, pp. 775-803
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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023
supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … increases in women's graduation rates will cause their children's graduation rates to increase further. But growth in the …
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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442369
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On the intergenerational transmission of STEM education among graduate students
Chise, Diana; Fort, Margherita; Monfardini, Chiara - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 21 (2021) 1, pp. 115-145
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