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The evolution of the US family income-schooling relationship and educational selectivity
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2020
We estimate a dynamic model of schooling on two cohorts of the NLSY and find that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the early 2000's. After conditioning on a cognitive...
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Household savings and marriage payments : evidence from dowry in India
Anukriti, S; Kwon, Sungoh; Prakash, Nishith - 2018
household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845475
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Rising Inequality in Mexico : Returns to Household Characteristics and the 'Chiapas Effect'
Bouillon, César P.; Legovini, Arianna; Lustig, Nora - 2011
Using data from the Mexican National Household Income and Expenditure Surveys, we decompose the effects of returns to … household characteristics and geographical variables to determine the relative importance of these factors in explaining the … rising income inequality experienced in the 1984-94 period. Whereas household characteristics explain the largest share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182977
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Risk, uncertainty and consumption-smoothing mechanisms : evidence from Thai household socio-economic panel data
Sirisankanan, Aeggarchat - In: Journal of Southeast Asian economies 32 (2015) 1, pp. 163-179
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
This paper explores secular changes in women?s pay relative to men?s pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261859
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Teenage motherhood and long-run outcomes in South Africa
Gustafsson, Siv S.; Worku, Seble - 2007
African women. In this paper we use the South African General Household Survey data of 2002 with complete retrospective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372523
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The Influence of Wages on Parents' Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom
Kalenkoski, Charlene M. - 2006
We use time-diary data on couples with children from the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Survey to examine the impacts of own and partner's wages on parents' provision of child care and market work on weekdays and on weekends and holidays. We find that increases in partners' wages increase women's...
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Family Economics Writ Large
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2016
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978951
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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022
We model the joint distribution of (i) individual education trajectories, defined by the allocation of time (semesters) between various combinations of school enrollment with different labor supply modalities and periods of school interruption devoted either to employment or home production and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260027
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Family Economics Writ Large
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2019
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210468