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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 investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one-time monetary transfer paid after childbirth. Applying a...
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This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on fragile families' time use with their children. Courses …, we find attending the course increased families' awareness of the importance of educational activities for children, the …
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We construct a dynamic model of child development where forward-looking parents and children jointly take actions to … money investments in their child, parents also choose whether to use explicit incentives to increase the child's self …
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This study estimates the effect of compulsory schooling on earnings. For identification, I exploit a German reform that extended the duration of secondary schooling in the 1960s. I find that hourly wages increase by 6%-8% per additional year of schooling. This result challenges prior findings...
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This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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policy also elevated income inequality due to larger harm occurring at the bottom of the income distribution. …
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female students' interest in programming and science and encouraging them to consider careers in STEM-related fields … randomized controlled trial. Our results show that Coding Girls had a significant and positive impact on male and female students …' aspirations to pursue higher education in STEM-related disciplines. The gender stereotypes children are exposed to from a very …
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Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
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benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality … children who attended such programmes no better off academically than those who did not. This paper studies the relationship … between students' years spent in ECE and the results of their educational assessment outcomes at age 15.Using PISA survey data …
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