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Inequality during the early years : child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child outcomes related to readiness to learn, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519857
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Birth order matters : the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment
Booth, Alison L. (contributor); Kee, Hiau Joo (contributor) - 2005
We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003053137
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Self-productivity and complementarities in human development : evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760038
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Intergenerational transmission of education : an alert to empirical implementation
Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2010
The intergenerational transmission of education is certainly a problem that continues to challenge most countries. The level of education that an individual rises to is linked to the education level(s) of her/his parents. This note serves as an alert to researchers undertaking empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688731
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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation
Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010
. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity … childhood and schooling interventions that does not rely on arbitrarily scaled test scores as outputs and recognizes the … more in the later stages of childhood than in earlier stages. -- Cognitive skills ; noncognitive skills ; dynamic factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934523
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The effect of family separation and reunification on the educational success of immigrant children in the United States
Gindling, Thomas; Poggio, Sara Z. - 2010
For many immigrants, especially those from Central America and Mexico, it is common for a mother or father (or both) to migrate to the United States and leave their children behind. Then, after the parent(s) have achieved some degree of stability in the United States, the children follow. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958916
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Children’s schooling and parental migration : empirical evidence on the “left behind” generation in Albania
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2010
This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause relational and psychological problems that may affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958917
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Does quality time produce quality children? : evidence on the intergenerational transmission of human capital using parental deaths
Gould, Eric D.; Simhon, Avi - 2011
children who lost one parent during childhood, we find a series of striking patterns which show that the relationship is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229766
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Effects of parental background on other-regarding preferences in children
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie; Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 2011
's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood is related to parental background. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488414
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How does socio-economic status shape a child's personality?
Deckers, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; … - 2015
We show that socio-economic status (SES) is a powerful predictor of many facets of a child's personality. The facets of personality we investigate encompass time preferences, risk preferences, and altruism, as well as crystallized and fluid IQ. We measure a family's SES by the mother's and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510510