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Endogenous childlessness and stages of development

Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - 2018

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Human capital investments and family size in Italy : iv estimates using twin births as an instrument

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 24 (2024) 2, pp. 425-461

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The effect of school entrance age on educational outcomes : evidence using multiple cutoff dates and exact date of birth

Attar, Itay; Cohen-Zada, Danny - 2017

Using Israeli data, we estimate the effect of school entrance age (SEA) on student outcomes. Unlike much of the recent literature, our identification strategy strictly satisfies the monotonicity assumption required for interpreting our estimates as the local average treatment effect (LATE), and...

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Born this way : the effect of an unexpected child benefit at birth on longer-term educational outcomes

Sánchez-Coll, Sergi - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 14 (2023) 1, pp. 105-141

Aiming to boost fertility rates, in 2007 the Spanish government implemented a universal €2500 baby bonus paid to … impact that the transfer had on the language and mathematical competencies of the children of eligible mothers at the end of …

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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment : The German Case

Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021

Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...

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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023

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Child Poverty, Demographic Transition and Gender Bias in Education in India : Household Data Analysis (1993-94 and 2004-05)

Chaudhri, Dharam Pal - 2011

surveys in 1993-94 and 2004-05. Although total fertility rates have declined for the country as a whole and for all states … children in the household depends on the number of women in child-bearing age and their distribution across this age group …, female education and per capita monthly expenditure of households as well as by social groups. We find evidence of gender …

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Unlucky to Have Brothers : Sibling Sex Composition and Girls' Noncognitive Skills

Bao, Te; Yuan, Yuemei; Luo, Weidong; Xu, Bin - 2022

about parents' evaluations of the importance of continuing the family lineage and the stringency level of fertility policies …We explore the relationship between sibling sex composition, gender inequality and girls' locus of control. Among girls …

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The effects of advanced degrees on the wage rates, hours, earnings and job satisfaction of women and men

Altonji, Joseph G.; Humphries, John Eric; Zhong, Ling - 2022

This paper uses a college-by-graduate degree fixed effects estimator to evaluate the returns to 19 different graduate degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS over-estimates the returns to degrees with the highest average earnings and...

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Changing returns to occupational skill and women's wages

Schran, Felix - 2019

gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by a reduction in occupational segregation between the genders. The … attributed to changes in (selection corrected) skill prices. The impact of movements in skill prices on the reduction in gender …

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