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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-02-04)In a 2005 paper Kanezawa proposed a generalisation of the classic Trivers- Willard hypothesis. It was argued that as a result taller and heavier parents should have more sons relative to daughters. Using two British cohort ...
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(University College Dublin; Centre for Economic Research, 2007-11)In a 2005 paper Kanezawa proposed a generalisation of the classic Trivers-Willard hypothesis. It was argued that as a result taller and heavier parents should have more sons relative to daughters. Using two British cohort ...
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(Elsevier Science, 2008)
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-09)Successful transition and adjustment to school life is critical for a child's future success. To ease this transition a child needs to arrive equipped with the necessary skills for school. The extent of a child’s behavioural ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)The widely held view that separation has adverse effects on children has been the basis of important policy interventions. While a small number of analyses have been concerned with selection into divorce, no studies have ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)Research on time preference formation and socioeconomic differences in discounting has received little attention to date. This article examines the extent to which early childhood differences emerge in measures of ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-02-01)This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental education and income on child health. We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the potential endogeneity ...
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(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2005-11)This paper investigates the robustness of recent findings on the effect of parental background on child health. We are particularly concerned with the extent to which their finding that income effects on child health are ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-07-01)This paper addresses the intergenerational transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in parental background. An important contribution of the ...
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(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2008-08)More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-06-12)We study how fathers’ and mothers’ income satisfaction correlate with the income satisfaction of their sons and daughters, as well as with other economic and sociodemographic variables. We estimate these correlations using ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-05)Is the intergenerational educational link due to nature or nurture? In order to answer this dilemma, this paper identifies the effect of parental education on their offspring’s schooling attainment using a discontinuity ...
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-08-11)While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04)
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(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-12-15)This paper discusses (a) the role of cognitive and noncognitive ability in shaping adult outcomes, (b) the early emergence of differentials in abilities between children of advantaged families and children of disadvantaged ...
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(American Economic Association, 2005-03)This paper examines the causal relationship between parents' education and that of their children in Norway. In 1959, the Norwegian Parliament legislated a mandatory school reform. In addition, the reform standardized the ...
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(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2003-10)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, ...
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