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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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adoption among U.S. women based on the NationalSurvey of Family Growth, Cycle 6. The individual characteristics that have been … foundmost influential in determining adoption behavior in past studies were examined,including age at the time of the interview … ethnicityof a woman and her adoption behavior, which has received limited attention in theadoption literature.The results of this …
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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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