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Incomplete markets and parental investments in children

Abbott, Brant - 2021 - This draft: February 10, 2021

The effect of incomplete markets on parental investments is investigated. Uninsured risk and credit constraints can distort the timing of parental investments, causing them to be delayed relative to what would occur under full-insurance. Age-dependent subsidies, taxes or transfers can all...

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Maternal Education and Early Child Development : The Roles of Parental Support for Learning, Learning Materials, and Father Characteristics

Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Aydemira, … - 2023

This paper explores the intergenerational eects of maternal education on the development outcomes of 24- to 59-month …-old children in Turkey. As the source of exogenous variation in maternal schooling, we use mothers' exposure to the 1997 education …

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Understanding the educational attainment polygenic index and its interactions with SES in determining health in young adulthood

Bolyard, Atticus; Savelyev, Peter A. - 2024

formation of health capital and the role played by genetic endowments, parental SES, and education. To measure genetic … designed to predict the highest level of education achieved in life. We find that the EA PGI demonstrates stronger effects on … explained by education as a mechanism. We provide suggestive evidence for the mechanisms behind estimated relationships …

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Does Family Structure Affect Children's Educational Outcomes?

Ginther, Donna K.; Pollak, Robert A. - 2014

In this paper we examine the effect of family structure on children's educational outcomes by exploiting the sibling structure in the NLSY and NLSY-Child to control for unobserved heterogeneity across families and individuals. We also compare outcomes for children within the same family -...

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The effect of skill level on the timing of childbearing and number of children

Alders, Peter - 1998

This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number ofchildren. Higher skilled women have less disutility of labor and have relatively lessutility of raising children. Motherhood has a negative effect on the accumulation ofhuman capital by learning-by-doing and...

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The impact of child work on cognitive development : results from four low to middle income countries

Keane, Michael P.; Krutikova, Sonya; Neal, Timothy - Institute for Fiscal Studies - 2018 - Revised November 1, 2018

We study the relationship between child work and cognitive development in four Low and Middle Income Countries. We address a key weakness in the literature by including children’s full time-use vector in the analysis, which leads to different findings from previous studies which do not...

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The Educational Attainment of the Children of the Danish 'Guest Worker' Immigrants

Jakobsen, Vibeke; Smith, Nina - 2021

education, marriage and family. However, the "guest worker" immigrants are not a homogenous group. The analyses reveal large …

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Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China

Zhang, Zheyuan; Xu, Hui; Liu, Ruilin; Zhao, Zhong - 2024

This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in … that an additional semester of exposure to the Free Education Policy reduces the intergenerational transmission of parent …

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Free education and the intergenerational transmission of cognitive skills in rural China

Zhang, Zheyuan; Xu, Hui; Liu, Ruilin; Zhao, Zhong - 2024

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The duration of paid parental leave and children's scholastic performance

Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time … education and school outcomes. …

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