Parental partnership and joblessness in childhood and their influence on young people's outcomes

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-101

  Ermisch, John ^a   Francesconi, Marco ^a   Pevalin, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Family endowments; Intergenerational processes; Nonparametric bounds; Selection and identification; Sibling estimators; Treatment effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542403915     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2004.00292.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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