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. Transport was required by most parents while others preferred to commute with the children to their place of work. The purpose … factors were availability of children under seven years in the location and its catchments area, the role distance played in … environment people wanted, the services the people want for their children, What is considered affordable school fees? Transport …
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This paper discusses the various kinds of pressure placed on children to consume and how their parents view and deal … issues are the range of constraints placed upon children's consumption as they desire to seek independence from their parents … opportunities presented to children to construct a particular image of themselves through their choice of attire. Related to these …
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-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …
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Discrimination against girls is well-documented, especially in Asia. We show that women try to level the playing field for their daughters by taking on debt. But wealth asymmetry between mothers and fathers perpetuates gender inequality across generations.
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to be unrelated to its effect on family income, parent–child interaction, and children's school experience. Together …Using a unique longitudinal data of British youths we estimate how adolescents' overall happiness is related to parents … positive influence on children's overall happiness. However, this positive association became either strongly negative or …
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Discrimination against girls is well-documented, especially in Asia. We show that women try to level the playing field for their daughters by taking on debt. But wealth asymmetry between mothers and fathers perpetuates gender inequality across generations.
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Parents may have important effects on their children, but little work in economics explores whether children …'s schooling opportunities crowd out or encourage parents' investment in children. We analyze data from the Head Start Impact Study … substantial increase in parents' involvement with their children—such as time spent reading to children, math activities, or days …
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Using cleft lip and palate as an exemplar, this article examines parents’ decision-making for children in the context … purposive and theoretical sampling, 35 parents with children from infancy to young adulthood were recruited through a specialist … revealed a core category, ‘doing the “right” thing’, that encapsulated parents’ main concern in relation to their children …
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