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COVID-19 and children's school resilience : evidence from Nigeria
Dessy, Sylvain Eloi; Gninafon, Horace; Tiberti, Luca; … - 2021
This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on children's school resilience. Using an individual fixed … school attendance after the lockdown was lifted. The results show that COVID-19 lockdown measures reduced children …'s probability of attending school after the school system reopened. This negative impact increased with children's age, reaching a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648537
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Consequences of war : Japan's demographic transition and the marriage market
Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021
the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the …) induces an increase in the number of children, but a decrease in the quality of children. Second, using the impact of World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392711
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Do skewed sex ratios among children promote parental smoking? : longitudinal evidence from rural China
Chen, Xi - 2017
smoke. Men are the major income earners in most Chinese families and thus bear much of the financial burden in preparation … for children’s marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor - a large number of surplus men in the marriage … ratios among children and intense smoking among fathers. Considering worsening sex ratios and highly competitive marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129940
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
they take their daughters, and (3) the fact that parents of boy students spend more on their children's education can be … largely explained by the extra costs of schooling for migrant households. Finally, we show that the parents of rural children … probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts that school age girls will migrate with their parents-a difference that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150082
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Books or babies? : the incapacitation effect of schooling on minority women
Adamecz, Anna; Scharle, Ágota - 2020
This paper examines the effects of an increase in the compulsory school leaving age on the teenage fertility of Roma women, a disadvantaged ethnic minority in Hungary. We use a regression discontinuity design identification strategy and show that the reform decreased the probability of teenage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162718
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … pronounced for higher performing students. By contrast, gender differences in media time are the main factor explaining gender … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803590
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The motherhood penalty in China : having a child increases gender inequality in the labor market
Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022
Using a comprehensive individual panel dataset in China and an event study method, we examined the effects of having a child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a mother implies a sharp decline in labor earnings,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013355416
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Female early marriage and son preference in Pakistan
Mughal, Mazhar; Javed, Muhammad Rashid; Lorey, Thierry - 2023
In this study, we employ pooled data from four rounds of Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) to examine whether, and to what extent, does the incidence of early marriage shape the married women's perspectives on gender preference associated with reproduction. We employ a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288408
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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013258938
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Blowin’ in the wind : smog and suicidal ideation among school-age children
Zhang, Xin; Chen, Xi; Sun, Hong; Yang, Yuanjian - 2025
suicidal ideation-a key precursor to suicide attempt and completion-among school-age children. We use daily variations in the … 55,000 students from 273 schools with comprehensive data on air pollutants and weather conditions according to the exact … younger, male, students from low-educated families, and students with lower grades. …
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