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How do parents raise the educational attainment of future generations
Plug, Erik J. S. - 2002
The problem with most intergenerational mobility estimates is that unmeasured and inherited abilities prevent us from drawing inferences. In this paper we estimate the intergenerational mobility of schooling and exploit differences between adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically...
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How do parents raise the educational attainment of future generations?
Plug, Erik J. S. - 2002
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The unknown immigration : incentives and family composition in intercountry adoptions to the United States
Lozano, Fernando; Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2009
Children adopted from abroad are an immigrant group about which little is known. According to the U.S. Census more than one and a half million children living in the U.S. are adopted, with fifteen percent of them born abroad. In fact more than twenty thousand adopted orphans from abroad enter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910195
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Women's education and family behavior : trends in marriage, divorce and fertility
Isen, Adam; Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
This paper examines how marital and fertility patterns have changed along racial and educational lines for men and women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap has eroded as the returns to marriage have changed....
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Family disadvantage and the gender gap in behavioral and educational outcomes
Autor, David H.; Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztopf; … - 2016
Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...
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The Unknown Immigration : Incentives and Family Composition in Inter-Country Adoptions to the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2010
Children adopted from abroad are an immigrant group about which little is known. According to the U.S. Census more than one and a half million children living in the U.S. are adopted, with fifteen percent of them born abroad. In fact more than twenty thousand adopted orphans from abroad enter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150365
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How important is the family? : evidence from sibling correlations in permanent earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows …: the importance of family and community background in Germany is higher than in Denmark and comparable to that in the US … to family and community factors shared by brothers while the corresponding estimates are 43 percent in Germany and 45 …
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Family socioeconomic status and inequality of opportunity : evidence from longitudinal studies in Canada, Germany and the US
Caro, Daniel H. - 2012
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How important is the family? : evidence from sibling correlations in permanent earnings in the USA, Germany, and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: Journal of population economics 27 (2014) 1, pp. 69-89
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How Important is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011
earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows …: the importance of family and community background in Germany is higher than in Denmark and comparable to that in the US … to family and community factors shared by brothers while the corresponding estimates are 43 percent in Germany and 45 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128101