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Human Capital and Ferility Decisions: A Comparative Microeconometric Analysis in Europe
Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo; Barone, Adriana - In: Economics Bulletin 28 (2007) 18, pp. 0-0
main objective has been to compare the effects of education on the probability of having a child for some EU countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213796
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Long-term health effects on the next generation of Ramadan fasting during pregnancy
van Ewijk, Reyn - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Each year, many pregnant women fast from dawn to sunset during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Medical theory suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder (2008), and using Indonesian crosssectional data, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746478
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Network attributes and peer effects
Lin, Xu - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 2060-2079
This paper investigates how network attributes affect the strength of peer influences in adolescents' academic achievement and smoking behaviors. The results indicate that for both GPA and smoking, endogenous peer effects are stronger for network groups with larger size, higher network density...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011039076
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Human capital, income, fertility and child policy
Gori, Luca; Fanti, Luciano - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2008) 7, pp. 1-7
This paper analyses the effectiveness of child-subsidy support policies in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility, child quality choices and human capital formation. It is shown, somewhat paradoxically, that only if the preference for the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629958
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Capitalising the value of free schools : the impact of supply characteristics and uncertainty
Cheshire, P. C.; Sheppard, Stephen Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
There has been a growing literature in both the US (for example Haurin and Brasington 1996, and Black 1999) and the UK (for example Gibbons & Machin, 2003) that estimates the way in which school quality is capitalised into house prices. Cheshire and Sheppard 1995 and 1999 estimated hedonic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928693
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Human capital, income, fertility and child policy
Gori, Luca; Fanti, Luciano - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2008) 7, pp. 1-7
This paper analyses the effectiveness of child-subsidy support policies in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility, child quality choices and human capital formation. It is shown, somewhat paradoxically, that only if the preference for the quality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767611
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Human Capital and Ferility Decisions: A Comparative Microeconometric Analysis in Europe
Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo; Barone, Adriana - In: Economics Bulletin 28 (2007) 18, pp. 0-0
main objective has been to compare the effects of education on the probability of having a child for some EU countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556169
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Teenage expectations and desires about family formation in the United States
Plotnick, Robert D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
old), this study analyzes teenagers’ expectations and desires about marriage, having children, and becoming unwed parents … power. Race, ethnicity, gender, type of religious upbringing, parental education, and parental expectations for their child …’s education are aspects of family context that consistently show significant relationships with expectations and desires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126146
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Identifying the Causal Effect of Marriage on Women's Labor Force Participation in the Presence of Chinese Superstition
Zhang, Junchao; Zhang, Shiying - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 2, pp. 986-997
. Using micro-data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper exploits exogenous variations in marriage caused by the … of marriage has been found for both rural and urban females in China, decreases the probability of female labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265564
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Intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain: a comparative study of parent-child pathways
Blanden, Jo; Haveman, Robert; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
pathways by which parental status is related to offspring status, including education, labor market attachment, occupation … because of the higher returns to education and skills, the pathway through offspring education is relatively more important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240196