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in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … in their marriages and with their family life, and are not only the least likely to divorce, but have had the biggest … marital patterns by education for men.*Published: Adam Isen & Betsey Stevenson, 2008."Women's Education and Family Behavior …
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regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under … workers outside the formal sector have promoted the growth of the informal sector. -- Mexico ; family policy ; informality …
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Households are dynamic while most surveys only collect information on individuals who are present at a single point in time. We exploit a unique and thorough household membership enumeration in Burkina Faso to consider the analytical costs of the typical static household roster. We document that...
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This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II – ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...
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This paper analyzes the degree of intergenerational education mobility among immigrant and native-born youth in Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational advantage over their English-speaking background (ESB)...
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researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background …, major the research issues are: How important a determinant of educational attainment is family background, and is family … educational attainment? What are the mechanisms that make family background important? Have specific policy reforms been …
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In der vorliegenden Studie wird anhand von Daten einer prospektiven Längsschnittstudie (Mannheimer Risikokinderstudie) untersucht, welchen Beitrag die Qualität der Mutter-Kind-Interaktion (MKI) im Säuglingsalter zur Vorhersage kognitiver (IQ) und nicht-kognitiver Fähigkeiten (Persistenz) bis...
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disconnected youths has been on the rise since 2001. There is evidence that an adverse family background is the most important …
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. -- Immigrant children ; education ; family separation …
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This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...
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