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secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a … strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving their children's' achievement on these tests, thus reinforcing … students in Hebrew-language schools from eighth grade to age 29, we provide evidence that despite Israeli schools being …
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This paper analyzes the sources of the racial difference in the intergenerational transmission of human capital by developing and estimating a dynastic model of parental time and monetary inputs in early childhood with endogenous fertility, home hours, labor supply, marriage, and divorce. It...
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essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
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essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
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to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children …. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college …
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We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings … disproportionally benefited lower class offspring. The rising influence of parents' earnings rank can partly be explained by a … strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …
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stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended up with … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …
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