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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790876
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
is absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in … the number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more … than they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can …
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Are sons and daughters substitutable? : a study of intra-household allocation of resources in contemporary Japan
Ono, Hiroshi - 2000 - Version: February 2003
within the household depending on the gender of their children. From the individuals' perspective, the gender composition of … of the family ; quality-quantity tradeoff of children ; gender inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009502713
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Sibling differences in educational polygenic scores : how do parents react?
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna; Terskaya, Anastasia - 2019
respond to children's endowments and to differences in endowments among siblings? Parental investment decisions depend both on … parental preferences regarding inequality in the distribution of their children's quality and on how costly it is for parents … to add to their children's quality by investing in their human capital (or the price effect). Our empirical strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019317
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
absent for children of preschool age. We also find that (1) boys are more likely to migrate following the reduction in the … number of rural primary schools, (2) migrant households with multiple children tend to take their sons to migrate more than … they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150082
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A bit of salt, a trace of life : gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2019
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118475
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A bit of salt a trace of life : gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020 - Current version: Tuesday 8th September, 2020
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427619
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A Bit of Salt, a Trace of Life : Gender Norms and the Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children
Deng, Zichen - 2019
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862457
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A Bit of Salt a Trace of Life - Gender Norms and The Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014093306
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Parental Investments in Early Childhood and the Gender Gap in Math and Literacy
Chuan, Amanda; List, John A.; Samujjwala, Shreemayi; … - 2022
Parental investments at early ages can shape children’s future educational specializations. Using a longitudinal study …, we find that parents invest more in daughters than sons at ages 3-5. Moreover, parents’ beliefs about their children …’s reading and math abilities are higher for girls than boys. We examine how these behaviors and beliefs predict children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085311