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What More Than Parental Income? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents
Sibling correlations are used as overall measures of the impact of family background and community influences on individual outcomes. While most correlation studies show that siblings are quite similar in terms of future achievement, we lack specific knowledge of what it is about family background that really matters. Studies on intergenerational income mobility show that parental income matters to some extent, but they also show that more than half of the family background and community influences that siblings share are not even correlated with parental income. In this paper, we employ a data set that contains rich information about families in order to explore what factors in addition to parental income can explain why siblings tend to have such similar outcomes. Our results show that measures of family structure and social problems account for very little of sibling similarities in adult income above and beyond that already accounted for by parental income. However, when we add a set of indicators for parental involvement and attitudes, the explanatory power of all our variables increased from about a third (using only traditional indicators of socio-economic status) to just over half. Interestingly, indicators of parents' patience, i.e., propensity to plan ahead and willingness to postpone benefits to the future, are particularly important.family background, intergenerational mobility, parents, siblings, long-run income
Structure and dielectric properties of polar fluids with extended dipoles: results from numerical simulations
The strengths and short-comings of the point-dipole model for polar fluids of
spherical molecules are illustrated by considering the physically more relevant
case of extended dipoles formed by two opposite charges separated by a
distance (dipole moment ). Extensive Molecular Dynamics
simulations on a high density dipolar fluid are used to analyse the dependence
of the pair structure, dielectric constant \eps and dynamics as a function of
the ratio (\sig is the molecular diameter), for a fixed dipole
moment . The point dipole model is found to agree well with the extended
dipole model up to d/\sig \simeq 0.3. Beyond that ratio, \eps shows a
non-trivial variation with d/\sig. When d/\sig>0.6, a transition is
observed towards a hexagonal columnar phase; the corresponding value of the
dipole moment, \mu^2/\sig^3 k T=3, is found to be substantially lower than
the value of the point dipole required to drive a similar transition.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures; Paper submitted to Molecular Physic
Gas Enrichment at Liquid-Wall Interfaces
Molecular dynamics simulations of Lennard-Jones systems are performed to
study the effects of dissolved gas on liquid-wall and liquid-gas interfaces.
Gas enrichment at walls is observed which for hydrophobic walls can exceed more
than two orders of magnitude when compared to the gas density in the bulk
liquid. As a consequence, the liquid structure close to the wall is
considerably modified, leading to an enhanced wall slip. At liquid-gas
interfaces gas enrichment is found which reduces the surface tension.Comment: main changes compared to version 1: flow simulations are included as
well as different types of gase
TB168: Time-Series Analysis of Maine Stumpage Prices
The authors of this bulletin analyze price series for stumpage in Maine. For each available species and product group (sawlogs, pulpwood), they test for stationarity and fit autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA ) models to the data based on preliminary diagnostics. They then perform in-sample and out-of-sample price forecasts. The central objective or this work is to characterize the processes for Maine stumpage prices in order to identify opportunities for using reservation price policies to increase timber and land values. These results are of particular value to nonindustrial timber growers for use in scheduling harvests.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/aes_techbulletin/1044/thumbnail.jp
Performance of Lambs Fed Green Chop
Management is important in controlling internal parasitism of lambs, as proved by research at various locations in recent years. The following experiment at the Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland, evaluated some control procedures for internal parasitism in the Middle Atlantic States
Contracts for Interacting Two-Party Systems
This article deals with the interrelation of deontic operators in contracts
-- an aspect often neglected when considering only one of the involved parties.
On top of an automata-based semantics we formalise the onuses that obligations,
permissions and prohibitions on one party impose on the other. Such
formalisation allows for a clean notion of contract strictness and a derived
notion of contract conflict that is enriched with issues arising from party
interdependence.Comment: In Proceedings FLACOS 2012, arXiv:1209.169
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