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traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …
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pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country setting. Analyzing rich individual-level data from a six-country survey …, we find that while the outbreak has no impacts on household income losses, it results in a 63-percent reduction in the … expected own labor income for the second-poorest income quintile. The impacts of the pandemic are most noticeable in terms of …
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during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school-age children who were exposed … educated spouses, and raised more educated children. We discuss various robustness checks and extensions that support these …
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, Vietnam still remains a large positive outlier conditional on its income. Possible higher motivation of, and coaching given to …, Vietnamese students only partly explains Vietnam's performance, and this is also the case for various observed household- and … and the other participating countries is due not to differences in students' and schools' observed characteristics, but …
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Using data from two representative Demographic and Health Surveys, we examine the change in son preference over the past three decades and its effects on Pakistani women's fertility. We analyse a number of indicators and employ different empirical methods to come up with strong and persistent...
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Child marriage is still widespread in countries across the Indian Subcontinent. The practice has important consequences for the health and well-being of the woman and the child. In this study, we examine the incidence of child marriage in Pakistan and the changes that have taken place over time...
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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...
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, respectively. We also find some indicative evidence of stronger impacts of air pollution for younger, primary school students who … find significant effects on students' test scores for temperature extremes and air pollution over the past 12 months. Our …
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