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Parental Disability and Teenagers' Time Allocation

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021

addition, when examining the time spent by girls and boys in two-parent households, we find that the gender of the disabled … both the gender of the teen and of the disabled parent, with teen girls likely being worse off than teen boys. Our results … suggest that differences in teenagers' time investments are a plausible mechanism for gender differences in intergenerational …

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Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring

Bargain, Olivier; Boutin, Delphine; Champeaux, Hugues - 2018

Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women's perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have translated into better outcomes within Egyptian households. We conjecture that potential changes...

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Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2018

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during …

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From Parents' Cradle to Children's Career: Intergenerational Effects of Parental Investments

de Vries, Sander; Ketel, Nadine; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2024

There is a clear consensus that childhood experiences shape adult success, yet there is limited understanding of their impact on future generations. We proxy parental investments during childhood with birth order and study whether disadvantages due to lower investments are transmitted to future...

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Birth Order Effects in the Developed and Developing World: Evidence from International Test Scores

Andersen, Dana C.; Gunes, Pinar Mine - 2023

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive skills across a diverse set of countries with different levels of development from PISA dataset. Using a birth order index that is orthogonal to family size, as well as...

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The Birth Order Effect: A Modern Phenomenon?

Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian; Lehmann, … - 2023

We provide a historical perspective on the birth order effect by examining differences in adult occupational rank among brothers in 19th and early 20th century Netherlands. Using a rich historical dataset compiling administrative birth and marriage registry records linking family members, we...

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Birth Order in the Very Long-Run: Estimating Firstborn Premiums between 1850 and 1940

Cools, Angela; Grooms, Jared; Karbownik, Krzysztof; … - 2024

The nineteenth-century American family experienced tremendous demographic, economic, and institutional changes. By using birth order effects as a proxy for family environment, and linked census data on men born between 1835 and 1910, we study how the family's role in human capital production...

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The More the Merrier? : The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2004

Among the perceived inputs in the ?production? of child quality is family size; there is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family. However, there is little causal evidence that speaks to this theory. Our analysis is able to...

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Birth order, educational attainment and earnings: an investigation using the PSID

Kantarevic, Jasmin; Mechoulan, Stéphane - 2005

Whether siblings of specific birth order perform differently has been a longstanding open empirical question. We use the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the literature: whether being early in the birth order implies a distinct educational advantage, and whether...

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Birth order matters: the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 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...

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