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their physical capacity to give birth, children’s health, the number of children desired, and women’s ability to control …
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Developing countries often face two well-known structural problems: high youth unemployment and high inequality. In recent decades, policymakers have increased the share of government spending on education in developing countries to address both of these issues. The empirical literature offers...
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Parents now engage in much more intensive parenting styles compared to a few decades ago. Today's parents supervise … their children more closely, spend more time interacting with them, help much more with homework, and place more emphasis on … educational achievement. More intensive parenting has also led to more unequal parenting: highly educated parents with high …
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is now weaker among high-income countries. Women's education level could affect fertility through its impact on women …'s health and their physical capacity to give birth, children's health, the number of children desired, and women's ability to …
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’s cognitive and educational attainment is not obvious: on the one hand, children may benefit from higher levels of family income …, on the other hand, parental employment reduces the amount of time parents spend with their children. …, especially those of mothers with young children. This trend has triggered an intense debate about its implications for children …
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not experienced since the Great Depression. Concerns have arisen over the impacts on young adults’ employment, income …
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It is not difficult to find statistics showing that teenage childbearing is associated with poor labor market outcomes, but why is this the case? Does having a child as a teenager genuinely affect a woman’s economic potential—or is it simply a marker of problems she might already be facing...
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Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
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began, but a lack of resources and policies to protect poor families hampered children’s access to education, especially for … non-compulsory school grades. Different phenomena associated with transition also negatively affected children’s education … focus on education and for monitoring of the schooling progress of children in special family circumstances. …
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Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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