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Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children … panel data set, we analyze age-specific effects for families with children below the age of 11. Our preliminary results …
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I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … children lowers a child's probability of holding a university degree by more than 5 percentage points. I do not find that …
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phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …
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exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show strong impact of children on preventing old parents from strenuous works at … senior age, e.g. having one more child significantly reduces post-retirement aged rural parents' probability of working by 12 ….8 percentage points. Such impact is especially strong among the more vulnerable elder parents with worse health and little pension …
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The literature shows a wage premium for graduates from high quality, elite, or more selective universities. The results, however, exist for countries with a clear hierarchy of top universities, such as the US, England, and Australia. I evaluate if such an effect also exists in Germany, a country...
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collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … conducive to child development. The learning gap was not compensated by parents or schools who provided less support for low …
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Does the number of future anticipated children affect educational investment in parents-to-be? In theory, anticipated … children can affect the returns to education, the resources available for family consumption, and the incentives for pre … wives, suggesting that the high costs of raising children can be a reason for increased educational investment. …
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Population diversity arising from international migration does not only affect the labor market, but also its training ground – the classroom. While the economics literature studies the large and persistent achievement gap between native and foreign origin students, surprisingly little is...
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Compulsory schooling increases average level of education in a country and provides other benefits, its effect on geographical distribution is, however, not obvious. We explore the effect of a sudden change in compulsory schooling in Turkey, that increased mandatory years of schooling from five...
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between the income of parents and that of their children. To understand the implications of polarization on economic mobility … lower upward mobility for children from low-income parents, higher intergenerational elasticity for children whose parents … of parental bequests and future wages. The main predictions from the model encompass limited upward mobility for children …
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