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's ex-POW status in the US Civil War (1861-5) and the children are born after the war. Ancestral stress is associated with …
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We use a unique data set of linked birth records from Florida to analyze the intergenerational transmission of health at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth weights significantly predict the child's birth weight, even after accounting for all genetic and...
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Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes … have no effect on the educational outcomes of children who are at least 20 because they have already completed their …
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The purpose of this paper is to assess if parents exert an influence on the occupation choices of their children. Using … data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistency of occupational decisions across fathers and … children using nested and conditional logit models. To separate effects related to genetic factors (nature) and parental …
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