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, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to … intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother's education and less important for father …
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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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as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …
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their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …
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This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a … motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a result of increasing own income, the median voter prefers in the … future lower taxes than without higher education. Therefore, the expansion of participation in higher education during the …
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We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems … substantial intergenerational returns to education. For children aged 7-8, for example, our IV results indicate that an additional … transmit the effect of maternal education to the child, including family environment and parental investments at different ages …
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education, determinants of the demand for services of the PTCs, cost of PTCs and evidence on the effectiveness of PTCs. …
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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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One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … parents decreased significantly faster than that by less educated parents, turning a significant positive education gradient …
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are estimated to control for the endogeneity of education and migrant network variables. Correlation of unobservables … across migration and education decisions as well as within groups of individuals such as the family are explicitly controlled …
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