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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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transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm and egg donation in IVF treatments in …
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We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity … Parents and Children - a rich cohort dataset of children born in the early 1990s in Avon, England - allows us to examine the …. We find that increasing parental education has a positive causal effect on children's outcomes that is evident at age 4 …
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target children at risk of not maximising their educational potential, the estimates are of interest. Contrary to recent … evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children's schooling achievements when focusing on … natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children's education. In most cases, the endogeneity of …
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This paper investigates the influence of parental education on the returns to experience of Italian men using a new longitudinal dataset that contains detailed information on individual working histories. Our favourite panel estimates indicate that an additional year of parental education...
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strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … investing in their children's test-taking abilities and improving their access to selective tertiary programs; and employers not …
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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, Hungary and the Former Soviet Union. It looks within...
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