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Effects of siblings and birth order on income redistribution preferences: Evidence based on Japanese General Social Survey
Yamamura, Eiji - 2012
redistribution regardless of the sibling’s sex. These findings regarding the effect of birth order are not consistent with evidence …The Japanese General Social Survey was used to determine how individual preferences for income redistribution are … affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011496193
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Effects of siblings and birth order on income redistribution preferences : evidence based on Japanese general social survey
Yamamura, Eiji - 2012
redistribution regardless of the sibling’s sex. These findings regarding the effect of birth order are not consistent with evidence …The Japanese General Social Survey was used to determine how individual preferences for income redistribution are … affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526919
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Effects of Siblings and Birth Order on Income Redistribution Preferences: Evidence Based on Japanese General Social Survey
Yamamura, Eiji - In: Social Indicators Research 121 (2015) 2, pp. 589-606
number of older siblings. Younger children are therefore more likely to prefer redistribution. The Japanese General Social … Survey was used to determine how individual preferences for income redistribution are affected by number of siblings and … did not affect the preference. (3) The number of younger siblings did not affect the preference for redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011241424
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Money and Success –Sibling and Birth-Order Effects on Positional Concerns
Lampi, Elina; Nordblom, Katarina - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008
Survey data is used to investigate how birth order and having siblings affect positional concerns in terms of success … siblings increases the concern among those who grew up together with siblings. Furthermore, people whose parents often compared … them with their siblings have stronger positional concerns in general. We find differences depending on whether the issue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651800
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Mind over Money: How Do Variations in Receipt of Child-Support Affect Home Environments?
Baker-Smith, Christine - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2012
Family structure is often related to financial instability. It is also established that stress caused by instability negatively influences home environments and these environments are integral to positive child outcomes as widely recounted in the family stress model (Conger 1992; 2002). Therefore a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149837
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Children in Fragile Families
McLanahan, Sara - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
This paper uses data from the first four waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the following questions: (1) what are unmarried parents’ capabilities at the time of their child’s birth, and what is the nature of their relationship at birth and over time? (2) How...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472048
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Parental Incarceration, Child Homelessness, and the Invisible Consequences of Mass Imprisonment
Wildeman, Christopher - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
Although the share of the homeless population composed of African Americans and children has grown since at least the early 1980s, the causes of these changes remain poorly understood. This article implicates mass imprisonment in at least the second of these shifts by considering the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472052
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Children in Fragile Families
McLanahan, Sara - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson … - 2009
This paper uses data from the first four waves of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to examine the following questions: (1) what are unmarried parents’ capabilities at the time of their child’s birth, and what is the nature of their relationship at birth and over time? (2) How...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720708
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The Missing Type: Where Are the Inequality Averse (Students)?
Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien; Fehr, Ernst - 2024
The empirical evidence on the existence of social preferences - or lack thereof - is predominantly based on student samples. Yet, knowledge about whether these findings can be extended to the general population is still scarce. In this paper, we compare the distribution of social preferences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534048
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The Missing Type: Where Are the Inequality Averse (Students)?
Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien; Fehr, Ernst - 2024
The empirical evidence on the existence of social preferences—or lack thereof—is predominantly based on student samples. Yet, knowledge about whether these findings can be extended to the general population is still scarce. In this paper, we compare the distribution of social preferences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534420