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Source: Department of Economics, Uppsala University
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Carneiro, Pedro M. Ginja, Rita |
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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children Working Paper 2012:20, Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS), Department of Economics, Uppsala University, December 2012. Also: http://swopec.hhs.se/uulswp/abs/uulswp2012_022.htm Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Uppsala University Keyword(s): Family Income; Family Resources; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Human Capital; Income Dynamics/Shocks; Insurance; Parent-Child Interaction; Parental Investments; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Consistent with the literature focusing on non-durable expenditure, we find that there is only partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Nevertheless, the magnitude of the estimated responses is small. A permanent shock corresponding to 10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation. |
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Carneiro, Pedro M. and Rita Ginja. "Partial Insurance and Investments in Children." Working Paper 2012:20, Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS), Department of Economics, Uppsala University, December 2012. |
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Gemus, Jonathan |
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The Distributional Effects of Direct College Costs Working Paper 2010:20, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, November 2010. Also: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:371195/FULLTEXT01.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Economics, Uppsala University Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Educational Attainment; Educational Costs; Financial Assistance; High School and Beyond (HSB) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper examines the distributional impacts of direct college costs – that is, whether the response of educational decisions to college costs varies by student characteristics. The primary obstacle in estimating these effects is the endogeneity of schooling costs. To overcome this issue, I use two measures of direct costs that are plausibly exogenous: living within commuting distance to a university and the elimination of the Social Security Student Benefit Program in the United States. Both sources of variation indicate that lower ability students are the most responsive to changes in college costs. In contrast, I find that the effect of both cost measures on college attendance and graduation does not substantially vary by family income, parent education, race or gender. |
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Bibliography Citation
Gemus, Jonathan. "The Distributional Effects of Direct College Costs." Working Paper 2010:20, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, November 2010. |