Parental investments in children: how bargaining and educational homogamy affect time allocation

This study examines parental time investment in their children, distinguishing between developmental and non-developmental care. Our analyses centre on three influential determinants: educational background, marital homogamy, and spouses' relative bargaining power. We find that the emphasis on quality care time is correlated with parents' education, and that marital homogamy reduces couple specialization, but only among the highly educated. In line with earlier research, we identify gendered parental behaviour. The presence of boys is an important condition for fathers' time dedication, but primarly among lower educated fathers. To the extent that parental stimulation is decisive for child outcomes, our findings suggest the persistence of important inequalities. This emerges through our special attention to behavioural differences across the educational distribution among households.

Asymmetries in the opportunity structure. Intergenerational mobility trends in Europe

It remains unclear whether social mobility is increasing in the advancednations. The answer may depend on mobility patterns within very recentbirth cohorts. We use the inter-generational module in the 2005 EUSILCwhich allows us to include more recent cohorts. Comparingacross two Nordic and three Continental European countries, weestimate inter-generational mobility trends for sons both indirectly, viasocial origin effects on educational attainment, and directly in terms ofadult income attainment. In line with other studies we find substantiallymore mobility in Scandinavia, but also that traditionally less mobilesocieties, like Spain, are moving towards greater equality. We focusparticularly on non-linear relations. Most interestingly, we revealevident asymmetries in the process of equalizing life chances, inDenmark. The disadvantages associated with low social class originshave largely disappeared, but the advantages related to privilegedorigins persist.

Government and the distribution of skills

Individuals' life chances in the future will very much depend on how we invest in our children now. An optimal human capital model would combine a high mean with minimal variance of skills. It is well-established that early childhood learning is key to adult success. The impact of social origins on child outcomes remains strong, and the new role of women poses additional challenges to our conventional nurturing approach to child development. This paper focuses on skill development in the early years, examining how we might best combine family inputs and public policy to invest optimally in our future human capital. I emphasize three issues: one, the uneven capacity of parents to invest in children; two, the impact of mothers' employment on child outcomes; and three, the potential benefits of early pre-school programmes. I conclude that mothers' intra-family bargaining power is decisive for family investments and that universal child care is key if our goal is to arrive at a strong mean with minimal variance.

Filosofi

Samlingen med signum HF fil finns vid Humanistiska biblioteket i samband med ämnet Filosofi. Vid huvudbiblioteket finns dessutom en samling filosofisk litteratur Som grund för akademibibliotekets filosofiska samlingar ligger donationer. Några donatorer från tidigare år kan nämnas, folkskollärare Ivar Wihlman, doktor Gösta Enckell, FM Max Söderman, vicehäradshövding Jon Hartman, professor Gunnar Landtman, lektor Axel Söderholm och studerande Leo Lillja. Den filosofiska litteraturen vid Humanistiska biblioteket söks i databasen Alma med sökfunktionen Signum och söktermen HF fil.

Finlands fiskar målade efter naturen = The fishes of Finland, drawn and coloured from life. Häft. 1-12

Gustaf (Gösta) Sundman (1854-1914) tuli tunnetuksi korkeatasoisten luonnontieteellisten kuvateosten kuvittajana. Finlands fiskar –teos ilmestyi kahtenatoista vihkona 1883-1893, upeat, metallihohtoiset kalojen kuvat irrallisina tauluina. Kalateokset tekstit ovat eläintieteen professori O. M. Reuterin ja eläintieteellisen museon amanuenssin A. J. Melan laatimia.

Nationalekonomi

Samlingen med signum HB VIb finns vid huvudbiblioteket och innehåller litteratur om nationalekonomi till och med år 1999. Bankhistoriker ingår i denna samling. Vid Institutionen för samhällsekonomi och statistik finns dessutom en samling nationalekonomiskt litteratur. Nationalekonomisk litteratur har ingått i bokdonationer såväl från hemlandet som från Sverige. Bland donatorerna kan nämnas Gösta Söderholm, Lars Wasastjerna, J.V.Tallqvist och Tor von Wright. Samlingen har kompletterats med friexemplar som erhållits från 1919. Den nationalekonomiska litteraturen söks i Alma med sökfunktionen Signum och söktermen HB VIb. En del litteratur tryckt före 1980 skall sökas manuellt i huvudbibliotekets systematiska kortkatalog, men retroaktiv inmatning i Alma av litteratur tryckt mellan 1830 och 1979 pågår. Från och med år 2000 ingår den nationalekonomiska litteraturen vid huvudbiblioteket i en numerus currens-samling.

Ishavet

Digitoitu 29. 5. 2008.