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Who Matters Most? The Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling
Gang, Ira N. - 1996
This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334313
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Who matters most? : the effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling
Gang, Ira N. - 1996
This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a 'cross-cultural' context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576871
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Who Matters Most? The Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling
Gang, Ira N. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 1996
This paper examines the differential effects of mother's schooling and father's schooling on the acquisition of schooling by their offspring. It does this in a "cross-cultural" context by comparing results across three countries: Germany, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839075
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On the road to integration? Immigrant’s demand for informal (& formal) education
Coniglio, Nicola D.; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - 2019
In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … immigrants the private investment in these activities is likely to have relevant external effects as informal learning and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054559
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On the road to integration? : immigrant's demand for informal (& formal) education
Coniglio, Nicola; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - 2019
In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … immigrants the private investment in these activities is likely to have relevant external effects as informal learning and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149384
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Wage distributions in origin societies and occupational choices of immigrant generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299919
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Wage Distributions in Origin Societies and Occupational Choices of Immigrant Generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298464
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Parental investments and socio-economic gradients in learning across European countries
Carneiro, Pedro; Reis, Hugo; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2024
Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high-quality public schools, are all notable features of Nordic countries. There is a widespread belief that such strong public investments in children contribute to a levelled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014484538
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014461378
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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the U.S.
Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024
Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014521056