Search Results - subject_exact:"Sociology of the family"

Effective families or effective schools? : experimental evidence on fostering children's numeracy

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Giannola, Michele; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2026

We study the relative effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and interaction of family- and school-based learning interventions using a randomized controlled trial in Colombia that assigns children to a parental engagement program, a teacher professional development program, both, or a control...

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Effective families or effective schools? : experimental evidence on fostering children's numeracy

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Giannola, Michele; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2026

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Family background at labourmarket entry

Vera-Toscano, Esperanza; Rondinel, Ana Gamarra - 2026

Using longitudinal data from the HILDA Survey, this paper examines how socioeconomic disadvantage before labour-market entry shapes early-career labour-market pathways and whether family resources moderate these associations. We model hardship dynamically over ages 4-24 and relate pre-adult...

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The intergenerational correlation of subjective well-being

Clark, Andrew E.; Lepinteur, Anthony - 2026

There are many estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income and education, even though these may be considered as only partial measures of individual welfare. We here analyse long-running UK panel data and directly consider the intergenerational transmission of two widely-used...

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Left without origins? : child fostering and education under missing family information

Gautrain, Elsa - 2026

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The influence of peers’ parental background on university enrollment : the role of education and occupation

Brugnara, Luca; Dottori, Davide; Modena, Francesca; … - 2026

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In the shadow of brothers : sibling spillovers in migrant families

Hasselqvist, Anna - 2026

Academic inequality between migrants and natives is often attributed to family dynamics that are difficult to observe. Siblings provide a way to study them: I estimate the effect of having a high-achieving sibling on the educational outcomes of children in migrant and native families. Using...

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Essays in education and family economics

De Falco, Adriano - 2025

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Childhood welfare exposure and economic outcomes for adult daughters and sons

Hartley, Robert Paul; Lamarche, Carlos; Ziliak, James P. - 2025

We investigate how length of time on welfare during childhood affects economic outcomes in early adulthood. Using intergenerationally linked mother-child pairs from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we adopt a nonlinear difference-in-differences framework using the 1990s welfare reform to...

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Celebrating legacy : the intergenerational transmission of reproduction and human capital in Ming-Qing Chinese families

Hu, Sijie - 2025

In unified growth models, the evolving nexus between population dynamics and technological change is key to achieving sustained economic growth. This paper uses genealogical records of 23,449 males and their spouses to investigate this interplay-the intergenerational transmission of reproduction...

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Older adults' descendants and family networks in the context of global educational expansion

Margolis, Rachel; Sheftel, Mara Getz; Wang, Haowei; … - 2025

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On the family origins of human capital formation : evidence from donor children

Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2025

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On the family origins of human capital formation: evidence from donor children

Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2021

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On the Family Origins of Human Capital Formation : Evidence from Donor Children

Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2022

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From transmission to co-creation : understanding family value composites in multigenerational business families

Luft, Viktoria; Heider, Anne Katarina; Liechtenstein, … - 2025

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Family background, education, and earnings : the limited value of "test-score transmission"

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2025

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Family background, education, and earnings : the limited value of "test-score transmission"

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2024

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Making the most of coresident data : credible evidence on intergenerational mobility with sibling correlation

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, … - 2025

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Family, gender, and the inheritance of entrepreneurial spirit : exploring sibling influences

Daly, Moira - 2025

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Sibling correlations and intergenerational mobility across immigrant groups

Colagrossi, Marco; Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; … - 2025

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Sibling correlations and intergenerational mobility across immigrant groups

Colagrossi, Marco; Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; … - 2024

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Board gender diversity and cash holding : the effect of family ties

Fleitas-Castillo, Gema del C.; Pérez-Alemán, Jerónimo; … - 2025

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Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? : insights from Sweden

Forsberg, Erika; Khan, Akib; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2024

Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across countries, less is known about heterogeneities across...

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Mothers and students' mobility

Sechi, Agnese; Zanaj, Skerdilajda; Lombardi, Gabriele - 2024

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Driver of returns to schooling : education-related policies or family background?

Soon, Jan-Jan; Lim, Hock Eam - 2024 - Version: August 2024

Does schooling pay off? - a seemingly straightforward question, but it is in fact a puzzle among economists. Answers would differ based on how the returns to schooling are estimated. Among the top concerns is whether such estimations have any causal connotation between the amount of schooling...

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Education, gender and family formation

Virtanen, Hanna; Silliman, Mikko; Kuuppelomäki, Tiina; … - 2024

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Education, gender, and family formation

Virtanen, Hanna; Silliman, Mikko; Kuuppelomäki, Tiina; … - 2024

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Education, gender, and family formation

Virtanen, Hanna; Silliman, Mikko; Kuuppelomäki, Tiina; … - 2024

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Education, gender, and family formation

Virtanen, Hanna; Silliman, Mikko; Kuuppelomäki, Tiina; … - 2024

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Nepotism vs. intergenerational transmission of human capital in Academia : 1088-1800

De la Croix, David; Goñi, Marc - 2024

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Intergenerational educational mobility and family economic vulnerability : evidence based on the CHFS study

Ma, Xiaokun; Ma, Tao - 2024

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Family ties and firm performance empirical evidence from East Asia

Godlewski, Christophe J.; Hong Nhung Le - 2024

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Birth order and social outcomes, England, 1680-2024

Clark, Gregory; Cummins, Neil - 2024

Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life chances? An extensive genealogy of 428,280 English people 1680-2024, with substantial sets of complete families, suggests that birth order had little effect on social outcomes...

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From parents' cradle to children's career : intergenerational effects of parental investments

Vries, Sander de; Ketel, Nadine; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2024

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From parents' cradle to children's career : intergenerational effects of parental investments

Vries, Sander de; Ketel, Nadine; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2024

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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment after apprenticeship graduation : does parental socioeconomic background still matter?

Dummert, Sandra - 2024

A smooth transition from apprenticeship to standard employment is a key step in the professional biographies of apprenticeship graduates. In this study, the transition of apprenticeship graduates from households that receive unemployment benefits are considered. These graduates are thought to be...

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The last bastion is falling : survey evidence of the new family reality in Italy

Aassve, Arnstein; Mencarini, Letizia; Pirani, Elena; … - 2024

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Socio-demographic determinants of insurance literacy among university students in Indonesia

Siregar, Reza Yamora; Serpina, Nada - 2024

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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Feichtmayer, Jennifer - 2024

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second step, we investigate whether the observed...

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Parental educational homogamy and children's tertiary education in Europe

Blossfeld, Pia Nicoletta; Katrňák, Tomáš; … - 2024

In this paper, we examine (1) whether parental educational homogamy is associated with children's tertiary educational attainment in different European countries and (2) whether this association is moderated by families' educational backgrounds. Using data from the European Social Survey and...

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Public education spending, family background, and child education attainment

Yu, Shuang; Zhao, Xiaojun; Liang, Yinhe - 2026

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Cycles of infertility : intergenerational transmission and the role of assisted reproduction

Falk, Viktoria; Madestam, Andreas; Simeonova, Emilia - 2026

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Intergenerational and sibling spillovers in high school majors

Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2024

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Intergenerational and sibling spillovers in high school majors

Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2023

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Intergenerational and sibling spillovers in high school majors

Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2023

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Intergenerational and Sibling Spillovers in High School Majors

Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2023

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The family as a cultural nexus

Fernández, Raquel - 2023

This review paper focuses on the literature that studies the interactions between the family and culture. It does not attempt to be comprehensive, but instead illustrates via some representative papers the interaction between the family, its cultural beliefs and practices, and economic outcomes.

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Understanding sibling correlations in education : molecular genetics and family background

Fletcher, Jason; Lu, Qiongshi; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Song, Jie - 2023

Sibling correlations in socioeconomic status are one of the key measures of equality of opportunity and social mobility, providing an omnibus examination of the importance of family background. Typically, these correlations are interpreted as the combined effects of shared sibling background and...

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The rising influence of family background on early school performance

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2023

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The rising influence of family background on early school performance

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2023

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The Rising Influence of Family Background on Early School Performance

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2023

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk Preference : Evidence from Parental Earthquake Experiences

Chang, Dongfeng; Liu, Qiannan; Liu, Wanlin; Zhang, Peng - 2023

This paper provides the first empirical analysis on whether and how intergenerational transmission affects children's risk preferences by exploiting exogenous variation in parents' risk preferences. We utilize parents' experiences to earthquakes---one of the most unpredictable natural...

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Why Do Young Adults Co-Reside with Their Parents?

Acolin, Arthur; Lin, Desen; Wachter, Susan M. - 2023

Nearly one in every two adults aged 18–29 currently lives with their parents, compared to slightly more than one in four in 1960. The literature focuses on changing labor market conditions and marriage-childbearing delays to account for this shift. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca procedure, we identify...

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The price of poverty : the association between childhood poverty and adult income and education in Sweden, 1947-2015

Brea-Martinez, Gabriel; Dribe, Martin; Stanfors, Maria - 2023

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Intergenerational transmission of home-leaving patterns

Moracci, Elia; Guetto, Raffaele; Vignoli, Daniele - 2023

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Migration, Families, and Counterfactual Families

Bertoli, Simone - 2023

Migration changes how families form and dissolve, and how one should conceptualize the family. This has implications for thinking about how the migration decision is modelled when individuals are unable to picture the counterfactual families they may have. Differences in marital status can...

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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany

Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023

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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany

Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023

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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany

Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023

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Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt : evidence from Germany

Feichtmayer, Jennifer; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2023

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Estimating intergenerational and assortative processes in extended family data

Collado, María Dolores; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2023

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Estimating intergenerational and assortative processes in extended family data

Collado, María Dolores; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2022

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Estimating intergenerational and assortative processes in extended family data

Collado, María Dolores; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2022

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Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data

Collado, María Dolores; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2022

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It's just (family) business : the impact of familial work experience on perceived qualification and hireability during the selection process

Hughes, Ian M.; Childers, Marie - 2023

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Rich grad, poor grad : family background and college major choice

Leighton, Margaret; Speer, Jamin D. - 2023

Expected earnings matter for college major choices, and majors differ in both their average earnings and the age profile of their earnings. We show that students' family background is strongly related to the earnings paths of the major they choose. Students with more educated parents, especially...

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Do family ties and structure matter for ethical and moral values?

James Jr, Harvey S.; Giwa-Daramola, Damilola - 2023

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On the origins of socio-economic inequalities : evidence from twin families

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023

We propose a twin family model linking twins with their spouses and children to quantify the relative importance of genetic and environmental factors in explaining the variance of socio-economic outcomes. Using data from the Danish Twins Registry and population registers, we test and relax the...

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Parents' separation : what is the effect on parents' and children's time investments?

Le Forner, Helène - 2023

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Parents' separation: what is the effect on parents' and children's time investments?

Le Forner, Helène - 2020

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The family effect : a compass for research on heterogeneity of family businesses in embedded contexts

Labaki, Rania; Mustafa, Michael - 2023

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