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's abilities, and a parachute effect, associated with family labour market connections. …
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In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between highly educated (high-earning) and less-educated (low-earning) women. I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that considerably increased the...
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a discussion of the historical introduction of family policies ever since the end of the nineteenth century and then … turn to the details regarding family policies currently in effect across high-income nations. We sketch a framework … concerning the effects of family policy to motivate our country- and micro-level evidence on the impact of family policies on …
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status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as … inequality of opportunities in family change. Second, we focus on the implications of family forms on children's school …This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin …
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impact of their investment on the early skill formation of their children. We propose that this subjective belief is … the estimation of skill production function parameters. …
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quality, and family circumstances during childhood. To decompose the fraction of the IGE explained by each of these channels … effects working through the other channels, thus providing an in-depth understanding of the link between parents’ and children … children of high income parents early in their lives, which encourages greater cognitive development and lifetime earnings. …
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-income children. Our findings suggest that parental time investments are neutral to early skills gaps, while monetary investments are …
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How do education, skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during childhood … variables explain most of the IGE. A key driver is the increased levels of parental investments received by children of high …
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