Parental Choices and Children’s Skills: An Agent-Based Model of Parental Investment Behavior and Skill Inequality Within and Across Generations
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Skill Formation; Parental Investments; Inequality in the Life Course; Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources; Agent Behavior;
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