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The impact pf parental income and education on the schooling of their children

Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent; … - 2005

This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental education levels, and shocks to income at this age. Least squares estimation reveals conventional...

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The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children

Chevalier, Arnaud; Harmon, Colm; O'Sullivan, Vincent; … - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005

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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2009

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification as a natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences between regulated occupations and...

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The short run elasticity of National Health Service nurses' labour supply in Great Britain

Crawford, Rowena; Disney, Richard; Emmerson, Carl - 2015

The paper investigates the short run responsiveness of National Health Service (NHS) nurses' labour supply to changes in wages of NHS nurses relative to wages in outside options available to nurses, utilising the panel data aspect of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. We find the short run...

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First generation elite: The role of school networks

Cattan, Sarah; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2023

High school students from non-elite backgrounds are less likely to have peers with elite educated parents than their …-elite students in high school could improve mobility across the whole distribution. …

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First generation elite: The role of school networks

Cattan, Sarah; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Tominey, Emma - 2022

register data on ten cohorts of high school students and exploiting within school, between cohort variation, we identify the … causal impact of elite peers on the probability of enrolling in elite education for students from different socioeconomic …, but the effect for low SES students is a third of the size than for high SES students. We explore mechanisms behind this …

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The role of attitudes and behaviours in explaining socio-economic differences in attainment at age 16

Chowdry, Haroon; Crawford, Claire; Goodman, Alissa - 2010

It is well known that children growing up in poor families leave school with considerably lower qualifications than children from better off backgrounds. Using a simple decomposition analysis, we show that around two thirds of the socio-economic gap in attainment at age 16 can be accounted for...

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How children's schooling and work are affected when their father leaves permanently: Evidence from Colombia

Fitzsimons, Emla; Mesnard, Alice - 2012

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school enrolment by around 4 percentage points, and increases...

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Explaining the socio-economic gradient in child outcomes: The intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills

Crawford, Claire; Goodman, Alissa; Joyce, Robert - 2010

Papers in this volume and elsewhere consistently find a strong relationship between children's cognitive abilities and their parents' socio-economic position (SEP). Most studies seeking to explain the paths through which SEP affects cognitive skills suffer from a potentially serious omitted...

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Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital

Vandenbussche, Jérôme; Aghion, Philippe; Meghir, Costas - 2004

We examine the contribution of human capital to economy-wide technological improvements through the two channels of innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labor has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer to the technological frontier under the reasonable...

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