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Parental and student time use around the academic year

Cowan, Benjamin; Jones, Todd R.; Swigert, Jeffrey - 2023

school is in session, mothers sleep less, spend more time caring for family members and driving them around, and spend less …

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The effect of schooling on parental integration

Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2024 - This version: December 16, 2024

Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents’ integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...

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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores

Graetz, George; Öckert, Björn; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020

basic economic theory. In contrast, very talented students with low-educated parents react to higher scores by increasing …

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Retiree health insurance for public school employees : does it affect retirement?

Fitzpatrick, Maria D. - 2013

Despite the widespread provision of retiree health insurance for public sector workers, little attention has been paid to its effects on employee retirement. This is in contrast to the large literature on health-insurance-induced "job-lock" in the private sector. I use the introduction of...

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The willingness to pay for job amenities : evidence from mothers' return to work

Felfe, Christina - 2009

This study is the first to estimate mother's marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed...

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Nineteenth century stature and family size : binding constraint or productive labor force?

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented … here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of …-spatial relationship between the environment and stature. -- family economics ; stature ; wealth ; inequality ; insolation ; vitamin D …

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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 2011

households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …

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Unequal bequests

Francesconi, Marco; Pollak, Robert A.; Tabasso, Domenico - 2015

Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...

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(Why) do self-employed parents have more children?

Broussard, Nzinga; Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory - 2003

We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the … likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises …

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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - Revised, October 2019

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …

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