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Schooling, family background, and adoption : does family income matter?
Plug, Erik J. S.; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ability, since at least a portion of ability is transferred genetically to children. This paper...
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Schooling Family, Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ability, since at least a portion of ability is transferred genetically to children. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276954
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Schooling, Family Background and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim P. M. - 2001
When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using an intergenerational sample of families, we...
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The child adoption marketplace: Parental preferences and adoption outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more …. What are the underlying causes for the variability in child adoption expenses? While cost variability is widely … adoption cost differentials are determined by adoptive parent preferences for adoptive child characteristics. We administered a …
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Adoption and diffusion of health information technology: The case of primary care clinics
Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - 2012
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in …
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Laws governing family planning
Weinberg, Roy David - 1968
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Did unilateral divorce raise divorce rates? : Evidence from panel data
Friedberg, Leora - 1997
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Abortion access and risky sex among teens : parental involvement laws and sexually transmitted diseases
Klick, Jonathan; Stratmann, Thomas - In: The journal of law, economics, & organization 24 (2008) 1, pp. 2-21
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Divorce law and women's labor supply
Stevenson, Betsey - 2008
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Marriage, divorce and interstate risk sharing
Halla, Martin (contributor); Scharler, Johann (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the...
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