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Substitution effects in parental investments
Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009
The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling investment than his brother, he will obtain 0.7 yuan more...
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Twin birth and maternal condition
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for 17 million births in 72 countries, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011896677
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Behavioral response of non-resident parents to child support obligations : evidence from SOEP
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
cohabiting with a new partner or on hours spent with children entitled to child support. There is only weak evidence of a …
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How Distance to a Non-Residential Parent Relates to Child Outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2012
A substantial and growing fraction of children across Europe and the US live in single parent households. Law practices … are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational …
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How distance to a non-residential parent relates to child outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2012
A substantial and growing fraction of children across Europe and the US live in single parent households. Law practices … are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation … the distance between non-residential parents and their children to proxy for contact, and measuring educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656608
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Stylized facts about the quantity and quality of parental time investments on the skill formation of their children
Torres, Javier; Agüero, Jorge M. - 2017
regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … better care for their children, thus increasing the socioeconomic gap. …
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that the occurrence of twins is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence that challenges this premise. Using individual data for more than 18 million births (more than 500,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594542
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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2018
impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925159
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The twin instrument
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian - 2016
Twin births are often construed as a natural experiment in the social and natural sciences on the premise that their occurrence is quasi-random. We present new population-level evidence challenging this premise. Using data on about 18 million births in 72 countries, we find that maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577906
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Do Parents Propagate Income Inequality among Children? Evidence from Chinese and Swedish Twins
Sikhova, Aiday; Oskarsson, Sven; Ahlskog, Rafael - 2021
children equally. In this paper we provide a potential way to reconcile these mixed findings using twins data from China and … first demonstrate that parents tend to invest similar amount of resources in the children during their childhood. By … parents tend to compensate or reinforce income inequality between the children through inter vivos transfers. Exploring …
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