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Assortative preferences in choice of major

Aydede, Yigit - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/6, pp. 1-25

The primary objective of this study is to examine the contribution of available information constrained by parents' fields of study to the observed assortative preferences in their children's choice of major. Comparable to panel models, we define within-family transmission functions with 1-to-2...

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Being Born Out-of-Wedlock: Does it affect a Child’s Survival Chance? An Empirical Investigation for Senegal

Guilbert, Nathalie; Marazyan, Karine - DIAL - 2013

(english) In this paper, we are interested in the effect of birth status, being born out-of-wedlock or in wedlock, on survival chance before two years old of siblings of same gender in Senegal. The analysis is based on nationally representative data, those from the Demographic and health survey,...

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Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment: The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Zhu, Anna - 2015

This paper analyzes the long-term consequences of children experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of...

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The Youngest Get the Pill: ADHD Misdiagnosis and the Production of Education in Germany

Schwandt, Hannes; Wuppermann, Amelie - 2015

education. We find robust evidence for school-entry age related misdiagnosis of ADHD in Germany. Within Germany and … attempt to facilitate and improve the production of education. …

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Birth Order, Family Size and Educational Attainment

de Haan, Monique - 2005

, by examining the relation with years of education for different family sizes separately; this avoids the problem that …

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Involuntary integration in public education, fertility and human capital

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008

This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The … model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private … prosperous parents multicultural integration in public education decreases their children's human capital levels. The analysis …

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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...

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Testing a conditional cash transfer program in the US: The effects of the family rewards program in New York City

Miller, Cynthia; Riccio, James; Verma, Nandita; Nuñez, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-29

incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled … rewards were offered. The program also led to some effects in each of the three areas of education, health and work, although …

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Birth order, educational attainment and earnings: an investigation using the PSID

Kantarevic, Jasmin; Mechoulan, Stéphane - 2005

Whether siblings of specific birth order perform differently has been a longstanding open empirical question. We use the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth order implies a distinct educational advantage, and whether...

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Birth order matters: the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2005

their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …

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