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maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
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maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …
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Community Survey to examine the effect of formal schooling on worker wages. Given the potential endogeneity of education … decisions, I instrument for individual schooling using cohort-level mean maternal years of schooling from previous decennial … censuses. The instrumental variables results suggest that schooling has a significant positive effect on worker wages …
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We study the spillover effects of immigration enforcement policies on children's human capital. Exploiting the temporal … US-born children with at least one undocumented parent are negatively affected by the introduction of these policies …. Changes in parental investment behavior cause this reduction in children's English skills. Parents are less likely to enroll …
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Wir untersuchen die Spillover-Effekte von Maßnahmen zur Durchsetzung der Einwanderungsbestimmungen auf das Humankapital … sind die Ursache für diese Verschlechterung der Englischkenntnisse der Kinder. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Eltern ihre … Kinder an einer Vorschule anmelden, sinkt. Die Zeit, welche Kinder in der Vorschulde verbringen, wird durch die Zeit, die die …
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children ages 6 to 8 in 2013. The paper finds that increased maternal access to schooling has positive and multidimensional … who were exposed to more schooling opportunities during childhood demonstrate less hostility toward their children when …-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the …
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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 … found, generally, that father's schooling is more important than mother's, but this does vary by ethnic group. Mother …
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Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...
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We study the causal relationship between educational attainment and teenage birth rates by focusing on a large-scale, country-wide reform that made high school compulsory and removed previously existing school capacity constraints in Mexico. Relying on administrative data on schools and births,...
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