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There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, is likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...
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There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, are likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323352
diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404547
In this paper we analyse the correlation between the level of education and the number of children in Italy. We select … analysis. First, we estimate the correlation between the female’s education and her number of children, and then we use also … partner’s education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero observations …
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diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645247
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of education focusing on the interplay between family and neighborhood … the education attained by children. This model proposes a mechanism explaining why and how they are of importance …’s education. A novel finding with respect to previous US studies is that family is of importance for children with highly …
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constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school … and how much to invest in their child’s education. We find children with one standard deviation higher own ability are 16 …
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.5 years. Parental education and wealth also have important effects on schooling, marriage, and childbearing ages. For example …
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between education and completed fertility decisions at couple level for … Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) method, where female’s education is instrumented by her partner’s education. The contribution … to the literature is to investigate the extent to which the effect of education on fertility may be intensified by the …
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Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of students who get into a better school help their kids...
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