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The impact of teenage motherhood on the education and fertility of their children: Evidence for Europe
Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - 2012
This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289950
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Parental investments and socio-economic gradients in learning across European countries
Carneiro, Pedro; Reis, Hugo; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2024
Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high-quality public schools, are all notable features of Nordic countries. There is a widespread belief that such strong public investments in children contribute to a levelled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014484538
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Gender-specific effects of unemployment on family formation: a cross-national perspective
Schmitt, Christian - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271078
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Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor : evidence from the groves of academe
Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014
We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236448
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Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor : evidence from the groves of academe
Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014
We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249692
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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the educational system is typically rigid and sequential, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647677
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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2017
This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the educational system is typically rigid and sequential, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113803
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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?
Hazan, Moshe - 2011
Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120166
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Early childcare duration and students' later outcomes in Europe
Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022
The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288057
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The impact of teenage motherhood on the education and fertility of their children : evidence for Europe
Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - 2012
; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665567