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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287686
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Testosterone and the gender wage gap
Gielen, Anne C.; Loomer, Jessica; Myers, Caitlin K. - 2013
Testosterone, which induces sexual differentiation of the male fetus, is believed to transfer from males to their littermates in placental mammals. Among humans, individuals with a male twin have been found to exhibit greater masculinization of sexually dimorphic attributes relative to those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793033
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283829
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288586
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Migration and families left behind : families that stay behind when a member migrates do not clearly benefit
Démurger, Sylvie - 2015
About a billion people worldwide live and work outside their country of birth or outside their region of birth within their own country. Labor migration is conventionally viewed as economically benefiting the family members who are left behind through remittances. However, splitting up families...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430776
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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325854
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The health returns to education: what can we learn from twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268848
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Do more-schooled women have fewer children and delay childbearing? : evidence from a sample of US twins
Amin, Vikesh; Behrman, Jere R. - In: Journal of population economics 27 (2014) 1, pp. 1-31
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227080
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Limited common origins of multiple adult health-related behaviors : evidence from U.S. twins
Sudharsanan, Nikkil; Behrman, Jere R.; Kohler, Hans-Peter - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936724
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Like mother, like child? : the rise of women's intergenerational income persistence in Sweden and the United States
Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023
We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280839