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evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children?s schooling achievements when focusing on … natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children?s education. In most cases, the endogeneity of … Seventies in Britain. This strategy identifies the effect of parental schooling only for parents with a lower taste for …
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leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …. Moreover, decomposing the income when the child is 16 between a permanent component and shocks to income at age 16 only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292953
evidence, we find a positive effect of both parents education on their children’s schooling achievements when focusing on … natural parents only. Step parents have no or a negative impact on children’s education. In most cases, the endogeneity of … Seventies in Britain. This strategy identifies the effect of parental schooling only for parents with a lower taste for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293769
leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …. Moreover, decomposing the income when the child is 16 between a permanent component and shocks to income at age 16 only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276084
leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age … effects on sons than daughters. We find that the education effects remain significant even when household income is included …. Moreover, decomposing the income when the child is 16 between a permanent component and shocks to income at age 16, only the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290658
Low birth weight has considerable short and long-term consequences and leads to high costs to the individual and society even in a developed economy. Low birth weight is partially a consequence of choices made by the mother pre- and during pregnancy. Thus policies affecting these choices could...
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children, could have potentially serious side-effects. As the controversy set in, uptake of the MMR vaccine by more educated … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient … suggests that our results are not driven by other unrelated trends. Somewhat puzzling, more educated parents also reduced their …
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