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This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive skills across a diverse set of countries with different levels of development from PISA dataset. Using a birth order index that is orthogonal to family size, as well as...
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"Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children … sectional patterns in time spent with children by parents within the United States. Second, we interpret our results in a … is thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has …
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Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … sectional patterns in time spent with children by parents within the United States. Second, we interpret our results in a … thought to be critical to the development of quot;qualityquot; children who will become productive adults. This paper has …
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Parents invest both their material resources and their time into raising their children. Time investment in children is … patterns in time spent with children by parents within the United States. Second, we interpret our results in a Beckerian … thought to be critical to the development of "quality" children who will become productive adults. This paper has three goals …
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. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more working-age adults are likely to grow faster than cities with more children … ratios, that is, with more children and/or seniors per working-age adult, grow significantly slower. Such effects are … particularly pronounced for cities with high shares of children. This result appears to be driven mainly by the direct, negative …
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