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The evolution of the US family income-schooling relationship and educational selectivity

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2020

effects of real (as opposed to relative) family income on education have practically vanished between the early 1980's and the … unobserved characteristics, a $300,000 differential in family income generated more than 2 years of education in the early 1980's …

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Gender bias in education during conflict : cvidence from Assam

Roy, Sutanuka; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005-14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to a 13 per cent drop in girls' enrollment rate with...

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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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Can superstition create a self-fulfilling prophecy? : school outcomes of Dragon children of China

Mocan, Naci; Yu, Han - 2020

three micro data sets from China we show that those born in a Dragon year are more likely to have a college education, and …

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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 K.; Riccio, James A.; Verma, Nandita; … - 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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Chapter 25 The political economy of intergenerational cooperation

Cigno, Alessandro - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1505-1558). 2006

This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from branches of economics as far apart as...

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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022

We model the joint distribution of (i) individual education trajectories, defined by the allocation of time (semesters …

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Who Marries Differently Aged Spouses? Ability, Education, Occupation, Earnings, and Appearance

Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 577-580

marriage, are consistent with a model in which individuals with more schooling and more upwardly mobile occupations interact …

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Educational Differences in Divorce in Japan

Raymo, James M.; Fukuda, Setsuya; Iwasawa, Miho - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 6, pp. 177-206

€™s education and divorce has not become stronger in recent years. We also used fourteen years of panel survey data to evaluate four …

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Men´s and women´s economic activity and first marriage: Jews in Israel, 1987-1995

Raz-Yurovich, Liat - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 29, pp. 933-964

between men´s and women´s economic activity and transition to first marriage. Our findings support the men´s economic … positive effect on marriage. Over the life course, we find that men who have a continuum of stable employment have the highest … odds of first marriage; while women reduce economic activity in anticipation of or due to marriage. Moreover, marriage is …

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