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opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on …
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This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a … of increasing parents' schooling from a high school degree to a bachelor's degree. Both for the effect of mother …
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We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …
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,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children …
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Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … citizenship or not. We find that the policy caused immigrant parents to (i) send their children to preschool more often; (ii … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool …
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treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
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We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...
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We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...
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