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In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK … psychological functioning. We also find some some aspects of the environment of higher income households hinder child development …
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-life balancepolicies benefit lower-income groups. This paper reports findings from a study, basedon in-depth interviews with 42 …
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substitutes. We find that there is a skill biasin cross-country technology differences. Higher-income countries use skilled … labormore efficiently than lower-income countries, while they use unskilled labor relativelyand, possibly, absolutely less …
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The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain.Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model,which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employmentand non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...
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UK government policy encourages mothers of young children in low-income families to enter or return to work, via tax …, both because it raises income immediately and because working now is seen as paving the way to better employment prospects …
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of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public … services. In this paper, weexamine trends in housing outcomes over the past twodecades for income quintiles, controlling for …
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affordability forhouseholds at the bottom of the income distribution. Real house prices at the lower end of the price distribution …
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now furnish material onsources of noninterest income and the amounts earned thatis much more detailed than the information …
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This paper explores the connections betweenbroad economic indicators in the New Yorkmetropolitan region and their national counterparts.It compares the performance of theregion in recent years with that of the nation and assessesthe importance of national and local developments for thearea’s...
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