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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction
Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480821
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Effects of extending paid parental leave on children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence
Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Jørgensen, Cecilie Marie Løchte - 2022
We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the duration of parental care during infancy. Exploiting a Danish reform that extended paid parental leave in 2002 and effectively delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275400
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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data
Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017
This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619598
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Effects of extending paid parental leave on children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence
Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Jørgensen, Cecilie Marie Løchte - 2022
We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the duration of parental care during infancy. Exploiting a Danish reform that extended paid parental leave in 2002 and effectively delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361514
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The parental wage gap and the development of socio-emotional skills in children
Hufe, Paul - 2024
Converging labor market opportunities of men and women have altered the economic incentives for how families invest monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes in the parental wage gap (PWG)—defined as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529250
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The parental wage gap and the development of socio-emotional skills in children
Hufe, Paul - 2024
Converging labor market opportunities of men and women have altered the economic incentives for how families invest monetary and time resources into the skill development of their children. In this paper, I study the causal impact of changes in the parental wage gap (PWG) - defined as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529736
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Intergenerational effects of compulsory schooling reform on early childhood development in a middle-income country
Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Aydemir, … - 2024
This paper explores the intergenerational effects of the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey, which extended compulsory schooling from five to eight years, on the developmental outcomes of children aged 36 to 59 months. We draw upon data from the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015052369
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Migration and human capital in an endogenous fertility model
Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008
How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise … found that increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation, while low skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272578
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Migration and human capital in an endogenous fertility model
Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008
How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question … drain induces parents to have more high and less low educated children. Under certain conditions fertility may either rise … found that increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation, while low skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003792879
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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a low-skilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125698