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that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …
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that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that …
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intergenerational costs of the draft for children of men that were drafted during peacetime to be two-thirds of a year less of schooling … than children of men that were not drafted. Further analysis of the effects by the gender of children reveals considerably … stronger impacts on boys than girls. In contrast, children of men from the whole military sample show a negligible impact of …
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investments in children contribute to a levelled playing field and promote social mobility. However, gaps in learning outcomes … between children of rich and poor parents remain as high in Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe. One explanation for this … paradox is that the equalizing impacts of public investments are undone by parental investments in children of rich and poor …
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outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
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personality. By studying a sample of adopted children whose parents are respondents of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, we …
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about parents and children. We estimate the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment and earning capacity … with critical variations due to labour market conditions. At the time of transition around 1990 children's educational …
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We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of preferences between parents and their children, examining … Italian households (parents with children 14-20 years of age) our analysis reveals a significant and positive correspondence … between parents' and children's preferences. The results indicate that sharing information strengthens the transmission of …
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We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and … willing to pay money to override their children's choices. Parental interference predicts more intensive parenting styles and …
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