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Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment : Introduction

Francesconi, Marco - 2016

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Dimova, Ralitza D. - 2014

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and...

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The Theory of Differential Overqualification : Does it Work?

Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2021

The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller … empirical test of this theory, until now, has been performed by McGoldrick and Robst (1996). Their results, using US data, do … not support the theory. Using German panel data (GSOEP), we also test the theory of differential overqualification. Unlike …

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Life after Lead : Effects of Early Interventions for Children Exposed to Lead

Billings, Stephen B. - 2017

Lead pollution is consistently linked to cognitive and behavioral impairments, yet little is known about the benefits of public health interventions for children exposed to lead. This paper estimates the long-term impacts of early-life interventions (e.g. lead remediation, nutritional...

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Parental Occupation and Children's School Outcomes in Math

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2018

We find a positive relationship between math attitude and students' math scores using data obtained from PISA 2012 and a 2SLS model. Math attitude is approximated by three subjective measures: parental attitude and student instrumental motivation, which assess beliefs about math importance for...

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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment : New Evidence from Germany

Cornelißen, Thomas - 2008

We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...

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Does Ethnic Diversity in Schools Affect Occupational Choices?

Pregaldini, Damiano; Balestra, Simone; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022

We study how two distinct dimensions of peer ethnic diversity (ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization) affect occupational choice. Using longitudinal administrative data and leveraging variation in ethnic composition across cohorts within schools, we find evidence for two opposing...

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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country

Cigno, Alessandro - 2011

As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...

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The Impact of Child Labor and School Quality on Academic Achievement in Brazil

Bezerra, Márcio Eduardo - 2009

We analyze the impact of child labor on school achievement using Brazilian school achievement test data from the 2003 Sistema Nacional de Avaliaccedil;atilde;o da Educaccedil;atilde;o Baacute;sica (SAEB). We control for the endogeneity of child labor using instrumental variable techniques, where the...

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Does Quality Time Produce Quality Children? Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital Using Parental Deaths

Gould, Eric D. - 2011

This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine whether the parent-child correlation in schooling outcomes stems from a causal relationship. Using a large sample of Israeli children who lost one parent during childhood, we...

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