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‐appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read‐athon. [Working paper No. 305]. URL: [http …
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analysis of child growth data for approximately 99,000 children in 19 countries with some of the highest burdens of …
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This paper provides new empirical evidence on the impact of parental health shocks on investments in children …, more precise, health indicators. Results show that co-living children of ill mothers, but not of ill fathers, are … shocks are likely to raise the employment probability of children due to the need to cover higher health expenditures. …
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Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children …'s schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study … substantial increase in parents' involvement with their children—such as time spent reading to children, math activities, or days …
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We explore the effects of income and, additionally education on the income, self-reported health and survival of men … conventional analysis with its focus on labour income excluding employers' pension contributions. We find that income at age sixty …
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Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income …
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This study combines survey data with annual state data on pupil-teacher ratios covering broadly the period 1940-90 to investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent...
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La presente etude comparative porte sur le role que jouent les antecedents familiaux dans l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires au Canada et aux Etats Unis. Etant donne que les etudes postsecondaires sont financees d'une facon tres differente dans l'un et l'autre pays, les antecedents familiaux...
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Le present document de recherche revele que les antecedents familiaux (niveau de scolarite des parents, type de famille …
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Dans cet article, on fait etat de nouvelles donnees sur les relations entre l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires et les antecedents familiaux. A cette fin, on utilise les donnees tirees de l'Enquete aupres des sortants (EAS) et celles de l'Enquete aupres des jeunes en transition (EJET) pour...
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