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Parental education and child health : evidence from a schooling reform

Lindeboom, Maarten; Nozal, Ana Llena; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006

opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on …

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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality

Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022 - This version: December 2022

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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Prolonged worklife among grandfathers : spillover effects on grandchildren's educational outcomes

Been, Jim; Gielen, Anne C.; Knoef, Marike; Moroni, Gloria - 2022

Recent policies aiming to prolong worklives have increased older males' labor supply. Yet, little is known about their intergenerational effects. Using unique Dutch administrative data covering three consecutive generations, this paper studies the impact of increased grandfathers' labor supply...

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The impact of family background on educational attainment in Dutch birth cohorts 1966-1995

Atav, Tilbe; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2023

,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children …

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The effect of Sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation

Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015 - This version: May 2015

dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …

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Earnings risk and demand for higher education

Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2002

We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...

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Early life circumstances and life cycle labor market outcomes

Flores, Manuel; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2015

We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with labor market outcomes over an individualś entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...

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Trade-offs between different early childhood interventions : evidence from Ecuador

Rosero, José; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011

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Dynamic complementarity in skill production : evidence from genetic endowments and birth order

Muslimova, Dilnoza; Van Kippersluis, Hans; Rietveld, … - 2020

The birth order literature emphasizes the role of parental investments in explaining why firstborns have higher human capital outcomes than their laterborn siblings. We use birth order as a proxy for investments and interact it with genetic endowments. Exploiting only within-family variation in...

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Family background variables as instruments for education in income regressions : a Bayesian analysis

Hoogerheide, Lennart; Block, Jörn; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: July 2010

The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In … instruments in income regressions. …

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