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CARE OR CASH? THE EFFECT OF CHILD CARE SUBSIDIES ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE.
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Løken, Katrine V.; … - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012
Many countries have implemented childcare subsidies in an effort to help families; in the United States, the government created the Child Care and Development Fund in 1996, which provides public funds for childcare assistance to low-income families. Despite the importance of the issue, little is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818938
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Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - In: Handbook of Labor Economics
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642943
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Too young to leave the nest? The effects of school starting age
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2008
market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268720
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Under pressure? The effect of peers on outcomes of young adults
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010
variables (average age, average mother's education) have little impact on the outcomes of teenagers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269789
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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269866
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Why the apple doesn't fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital
Devereux, Paul J.; Black, Sandra E.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269293
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Why the apple doesn't fall far : understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital
Devereux, Paul J.; Black, Sandra E.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2005
This paper examines the causal relationship between parents' education and that of their children in Norway. In 1959 … effect of the reform was to reduce the proportion of people with fewer than nine years of education from 12 percent to three … percent, with a new spike at nine years. For mothers, there is a positive effect of maternal education on the education of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269346
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Forced to be rich? Returns to compulsory schooling in Britain
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2008
education. That is, the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE) is larger than the average treatment effect (ATE). However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269425
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Fast times at Ridgemont High? The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births
Devereux, Paul J. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2004
Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies that increase educational attainment reduce early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269474
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Too young to leave the nest? The effects of school starting age
Devereux, Paul J.; Black, Sandra E.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2008
market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269509