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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation immigrants
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A.; Haaren-Giebel, … - 2015
education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283172
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Number of siblings and educational choices of immigrant children : evidence from first- and second-generation siblings
Meurs, Dominique; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2015
education track attendance from the first to the second generation of immigrants. Second, we find that reduced fertility is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342868
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Early childhood care and cognitive development
Chaparro, Juan; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, Matthew - 2020
This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193298
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Early child care and child outcomes : the role of grandparents
Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419071
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Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development
Chaparro, Juan - 2020
This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838500
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Evaluating Early Childhood Policies : An Estimable Model of Family Child Investments
Azuero, Rodrigo - 2020
I develop and estimate a technology of skill formation nested within a collective model of household behavior to evaluate the effect of various early childhood interventions. The model incorporates different channels of parental investments in children such as time, material investments, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840585
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Early Child Care and Child Outcomes : The Role of Grandparents
Del Boca, Daniela - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044909
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Intergenerational effects of grandparental care on children and parents
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021 - First draft
Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in most OECD countries. Despite its relevance, the effects of child care provided by grandparents on child and parental outcomes have received little attention in the literature....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330626
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Women's Labour Supply after Childbirth: An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland
Djurdjevic, Dragana - 2005
family sex composition as an instrument for fertility. The primary focus of this study is to investigate the regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288720
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Marital Fertility and Religion : Recent Changes in Spain
Adserà, Alícia - 2004
Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070622