Family Background and Economic Outcomes in Japan

There has been increasing concern about the influence of elements of family background on children’s future outcomes in Japan. This paper empirically examines the long-term impact of family background, including sibling composition and parental attributes, and reveals how these elements of Japanese women’s family backgrounds affect their educational attainment and investment, labor market outcomes, family formation, and spousal characteristics.

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Year of publication:	2012-05
Authors:	Yamada, Ken
Institutions:	School of Economics, Singapore Management University
Subject:	sibling composition \| family background \| intergenerational correlations \| family formation \| assortative mating

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Published in SMU Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series Number 23-2012 33 pages
Classification:	J12 - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure ; J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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