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Are grandparents a good substitute for parents as the primary caregiver? : the impact of grandparents on children's academic performance
Wang, Sophie Xuefei; Bansak, Cynthia - 2022
This study examines the impacts of caregiving by grandparents on children's academic performance in China, using data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254240
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Age effects in education : a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrant children
Abatemarco, Antonio; Cavallo, Mariagrazia; Marino, … - 2021
that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to … benefits to second-generation immigrant children. Besides, we point out the possibility of exploiting the larger impact of the … relative age on second-generation children in order to support their performance and reduce the large penalization associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417618
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704643
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Parental unemployment and adolescents' academic performance
Drydakis, Nick - 2023
parental unemployment on children's human capital should be considered by policymakers, as should educational interventions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013541650
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Family matters: involuntary parental unemployment during childhood and subjective wellbeing later in life
Nikolova, Milena; Nikolaev, Boris N. - 2018
resources, and parents' working time when growing up. These findings imply that the adverse effects associated with parental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131231
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Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2020
We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for … individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825395
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The Timing of Parental Job Displacement, Child Development and Family Adjustment
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton - 2022
, even though displacement episodes early in children’s lives have the largest impacts on household income (because they … persist for many years), displacement episodes occurring in the children’s teenage years have the largest effects on human … capital accumulation. We show that most of the effects operate through the intensive margin of schooling, and that children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243678
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Intergenerational scars : the impact of parental unemployment on individual health later in life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286188
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Trends of Children's Height and Parental Unemployment : A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2021
The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316616
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Beyond the average : ethnic capital heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education
Chakrabortya, Tanika; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, … - 2019
correlated unobservables, we find that children of low-educated parents benefit significantly from the presence of high … impact of heterogeneous ethnic capital on educational outcomes of children. Correcting for endogenous location choice and …-educated parental peers of the same ethnicity. High educated parental peers from other ethnicities do not influence children’s learning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161710