Search Results - subject:"FAMILY SIZE"

The effects of minimum wages on (almost) everything? : a review of recent evidence on health and related behaviors

Neumark, David - In: Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations 38 (2024) 1, pp. 1-65

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Human capital investments and family size in Italy : iv estimates using twin births as an instrument

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 24 (2024) 2, pp. 425-461

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Children of the revolution : women's liberation and children's success

Maurin, Eric; Oliveira, Florentine - 2024

In many countries, the Sixties marked a turning point in the history of women's emancipation. Using data with information on the birth order of large samples of individuals, we show that the first to be affected by this revolution were the first-born of the early 1960s: they grew up much more...

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Family size and domestic violence in a high-fertility society

Pritadrajati, Dyah - 2023

Does family size affect the prevalence of domestic violence? Using nationally representative survey data from Samoa …) multiple births (twin); and (3) a female firstborn. I find evidence of a direct causal link between family size and an …

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Birth Order Effects in the Developed and Developing World: Evidence from International Test Scores

Andersen, Dana C.; Gunes, Pinar Mine - 2023

This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive … that is orthogonal to family size, as well as controlling for student and family covariates, we find negative family size … no evidence of a relationship between birth order effects and the level of development, while the effect of family size …

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Fertility, Son-Preference, and the Reversal of the Gender Gap in Literacy/Numeracy Tests

Chae, Minhee; Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2023

This study examines the relationship between fertility decline and the reversal/narrowing of the gender gap in literacy/numeracy test scores. Drawing on Becker's Quantity-Quality (Q-Q) trade-off model, we propose that in a society such as China, where son-preference is prevalent, the Q-Q...

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