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Measurement and analysis of child well-being in middle and high income countries
Heshmati, Almas (contributor);  … - 2007
Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide audience in the political and scientific world, in this paper we further analyze the UNICEF study data base and present three composite indices that are multidimensional and...
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Birth order effects on education : insights from low- and middle-income countries
Mendolia, Silvia; Stavrunova, Olena; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - 2024
Birth order effects in developed countries are consistently negative. That is, the later a child is born within a family, the worse their adult economic outcomes relative to their earlier-born siblings are. However, studies of birth order effects in emerging countries are scarcer and yield...
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Maternity and family leave policy
Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2017
Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world, the existing research yields the following general...
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Parental unemployment and child health in China
Pieters, Janneke; Rawlings, Samantha - 2016
This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497178
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Early life environments and frailty in old age among Chinese older adults
Li, Yaxi; Xue, Qian-Li; Odden, Michelle C.; Chen, Xi; … - 2019
. 6,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136991
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Sons or daughters? : the impact of children's migration on the health and well-being of parents left behind
Wahba, Jackline; Wang, Chuhong - 2019
We study the impact of adult children's internal migration on the health and subjective well-being of elderly parents left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel and exogenous variation in children's astrological...
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The impact of family co-residence and childcare on children's cognitive skill
Deng, Lanfang; Li, Haizheng; Liu, Zhiqiang - 2019
generations on a child's cognitive development. Using data from China, we find that children living in multigenerational families …
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Growing into relative income poverty : urban China 1988 to 2013
Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2019
This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … 2013 urban residents in China changed their assessment of how much money that is necessary. Data from the China Household … urban China was more rapid in the middle segments of the income distribution that at it's lower segments. In 2013, at least …
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Risk aversion and son preference : experimental evidence from Chinese twin parents
Chew, Soo-Hong; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen; Zhong, Songfa - 2017
We study the role of risk aversion underlying son preference in patriarchal societies, where sons serve as better insurance for old-age support than daughters. The implications of an insurance motive on son preference are two-fold. First, prior to the birth of their children, more risk-averse...
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Cognitive skills, noncognitive skills, and school-to-work transitions in rural China
Glewwe, Paul; Huang, Qiuqiong; Park, Albert - 2017
children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613141