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Why the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial … are more likely to invest in the stock market. However, little is known about whether this is a causal effect of education … or whether it arises from the correlation of education with unobserved characteristics. Using exogenous variation in …

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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...

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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Loken, Katrine V.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...

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The Returns to Education in Italy: A New Look at the Evidence

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in … Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross wages) are in line with the European … marginal return to the marginal cost of education - we speculate that either marginal costs are steeper in Italy or that a …

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The College Wage Gap in 10 European Countries: Evidence from Two Cohorts

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We study the recent evolution of the college wage gap with a unique data set that comprises two cohorts and 10 European countries from the early to mid 1980s to the mid to late 1990s. We find evidence of significant cross country differences in the level and dynamics of the gap. There is also...

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Too Young to Leave the Nest? The Effects of School Starting Age

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …

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Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Economists and social scientists have long been interested in intergenerational mobility, and documenting the persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter in the Handbook of Labor Economics, the literature has...

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Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …

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From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …

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