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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate five well‐established issues of gender stereotype, analyzing data … eight country study involved survey research using hierarchal regression to test five hypotheses involving gender … stereotypes relating to family business management. The eight countries, USA, Egypt, France, Argentina, Serbia, Kosovo, Kuwait …
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Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplinary environments in response to their...
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Whether siblings of specific birth order perform differently has been a longstanding open empirical question. We use the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth order implies a distinct educational advantage, and whether...
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The critical role of prenatal and early childhood conditions on adult outcomes has been the focus of a rich body of research. In this paper, we examine various pre- and postnatal investments as possible sources behind the birth order effect - significant differences in the educational and labor...
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Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplinary environments in response to their...
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both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
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This paper develops a theoretical model of optimal schooling levels where ability and family background are the central … explanatory variables. We derive schooling demand and supply functions based on individual wealth maximization. Using NLSY79 data … schooling and ability alone) corresponds to 13 FTE years of work experience yielding on average a rate of return of 9.6 percent …
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