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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346051
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238369
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010248827
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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014 - February 27, 2014 (First version: January 29, 2014)
Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. We interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406894
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It Takes a Village : The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects
Agostinelli, Francesco - 2020
As children reach adolescence, peer interactions become increasingly central to their development, whereas the direct influence of parents wanes. Nevertheless, parents may continue to exert leverage by shaping their children's peer groups. We study interactions of parenting style and peer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835887
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Inequality and Growth : Why Differential Fertility Matters
Doepke, Matthias; de la Croix, David - 2003
We develop a new theoretical link between inequality and growth. In our model, fertility and education decisions are … distribution increases the fertility differential between the rich and the poor, which implies that more weight gets placed on …. We find that this fertility-differential effect accounts for most of the empirical relationship between inequality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075402
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Inequality and Growth : Why Differential Fertility Matters
Doepke, Matthias; de la Croix, David - 2003
We develop a new theoretical link between inequality and growth. In our model, fertility and education decisions are … distribution increases the fertility differential between the rich and the poor, which implies thatmore weight gets placed on …. We find that this fertility-differential effect accounts for most of the empirical relationship between inequality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014126847
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Do rising returns to education justify "helicopter" parenting? : increased stakes in educational achievement explain why today's anxious parents engage in intensive parenting style...
Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2021
Parents now engage in much more intensive parenting styles compared to a few decades ago. Today's parents supervise their children more closely, spend more time interacting with them, help much more with homework, and place more emphasis on educational achievement. More intensive parenting has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254380
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Inequality and growth : why differential fertility matters
De la Croix, David (contributor);  … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001611356
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Inequality and growth : why differential fertility matters
De la Croix, David (contributor);  … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701619