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The Evolution of Secularization : Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence

Bar-El, Ronen - 2010

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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Optimal family policy in the presence of moral hazard, when the quantity and quality of children are stochastic

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2009

We examine the second-best family policy under the assumption that both the number and the future earning capacities of the children born to a couple are random variables with probability distributions conditional on unobservable parental actions. Potential parents take their decisions without...

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Substitution effects in parental investments

Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009

The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling investment than his brother, he will obtain 0.7 yuan more...

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Optimal family policy in the presence of moral hazard, when the quantity and quality of children are stochastic

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa - 2009

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Substitution effects in parental investments

Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009

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Parenting style as an investment in human development

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zhu, Anna - 2016

We propose a household production function approach to human development in which the role of parenting style in child rearing is explicitly considered. Specifically, we model parenting style as an investment in human development that depends not only on inputs of time and market goods, but also...

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Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - 2003

We consider a case where some of the parents have higher ability to raise children than others. First-best policy gives both types of parents the same level of utility. If parental actions are not fully observable, however, the policy maker has to take into account the incentive-compatibility...

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Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2016

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Whoever Has Will Be Given More : Child Endowment and Human Capital Investment

Borga, Liyousew Gebremedhin - 2019

more likely to attend preschool, be enrolled in elementary school, and have more expenses incurred towards their education …

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Parental Human Capital Investment Responses to Children’s Disability

Terskaya, Anastasia - 2020

that parents underinvest in the education of disabled children.Alternatively, inequality averse parents may reduce the … education gap associatedwith disabilities. This paper proposes a simple theoretical framework and an estimationstrategy aimed at … investigating whether parental decisions to invest in the education ofdisabled children are driven by equality or efficiency. Even …

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