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On the demand for grandchildren : tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - 2004
transfers to their own parents in order to instill appropriate preferences in their children. This generates a derived demand … for grandchildren since potential grandparents will be treated better by their adult children if the latter have their own … children to whom to demonstrate the appropriate behavior. Empirical work, based on waves 1 and 2 of the National Survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728981
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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age : Comparative Evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi - 2020
This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828599
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Childhood circumstances and health inequality in old age : comparative evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241752
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Childhood circumstances and health inequality in old age: comparative evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
This paper estimates the extent to which childhood circumstances contribute to health inequality in old age and evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248987
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On the demand for grandchildren : tied transfers and the demonstration effect
Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002085529
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Firm Accommodation After Disability : Labor Market Impacts and Implications for Social Insurance
Aizawa, Naoki; Mommaerts, Corina; Rennane, Stephanie L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the labor market impacts of firm accommodation decisions and assesses implications for the design of social insurance for workplace disability. We leverage a unique workers' compensation (WC) program in Oregon that provides wage subsidies to firms for accommodating injured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447299
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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 … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548641
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The effects of two influential early childhood interventions on health and healthy behaviors
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2015
This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308448
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The effect of education on fertility : evidence from a compulsory schooling reform
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit exogenous variation from a German compulsory schooling reform to deal with the endogeneity of education. By using data from two complementary data sets, we examine different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687925
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The effect of education on fertility : evidence from a compulsory schooling reform
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - 2012
This study analyzes the effect of education on the number of children, childlessness, and the timing of births.We use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009666501