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Greek Debt and American Debt: Graduation Speech at the University of Athens Economics and Business School

Geanakoplos, John - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2011

This is the graduation speech I gave on receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Athens Economics and Business School. I talk about my Greek family, about how I got interested in economics, and then how in the 1990s I came to think about default, collateral, and leverage as the...

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Are children with siblings really more vulnerable than only children in health, cognition and non-cognitive outcomes? : evidence from a multi-province dataset in China

Zhou, Hua; Mo, Di; Renfu, Luo; Yue, Ai; Rozelle, Scott - In: China & world economy 24 (2016) 3, pp. 3-17

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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India

Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019

investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early ages and weakens over time, while the cognition effect surges only in early adolescence. The analysis on heterogeneous …

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The intergenerational elasticity of earnings : exploring the mechanisms

Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2024

How do education, skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during childhood contribute to the persistence of earnings across generations? Building on a classic literature in sociology and a more recent literature in economics, our model allows each of the...

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The effect of parental transmission of entrepreneurship on small and micro-enterprise sales performance

Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Schwarz, Susan; Shami, Muntasir - In: International small business journal : ISBJ 43 (2025) 4, pp. 391-419

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Labor market shocks, parental beliefs, and children's socio-emotional development

Baez, Maria Josefina; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; … - 2025

This paper investigates how shifts in local labor markets influence maternal expectations about future support from their children, and how those expectations affect adolescents' socio-emotional development. Using panel data from the Young Lives study in Peru (Rounds 4 and 5), the analysis...

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Intergenerational transmission of non-cognitive abilities : evidence from the Wuhan Birth Cohort Studies

Li, Ying; Zhao, Shuhang; Shi, Zhilei; Nie, Jingchun - In: China economic review 87 (2024), pp. 1-20

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The intergenerational elasticity of earnings : exploring the mechanisms

Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2024

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Gender, socioeconomic status, and numeracy test scores

Paterson, Molly; Parasnis, Jaai; Rendall, Michelle - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization 227 (2024), pp. 1-17

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Child penalties in labour market skills

Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Battisti, Michele - 2025

Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, employment and earnings of mothers drop persistently compared to fathers. Beyond gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers' longer employment interruptions. This paper...

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