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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China

Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...

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Age effects in education : a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrant children

Abatemarco, Antonio; Cavallo, Mariagrazia; Marino, … - 2021

A double disadvantage occurs when the interaction of two disadvantages generates an additional disadvantage. We show that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to the average native, reduces scores in Italian by 17% and...

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The effect of education on health : evidence from the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey

Baltagi, Badi H.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Karatas, Haci M. - 2019

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The compulsory schooling increased from 5 to 8 years in 1997. This increase was accompanied by a massive construction of classrooms and recruitment of teachers in a differential rate...

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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...

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Exploring the spillover effects of internally displaced settlements on the wellbeing of children of the locales

Uchenna, Efobi; Joseph, Ajefu - 2024

This research examines the effect of internally displaced persons (IDPs) resettlement on the anthropometric outcomes of the host community's children in Nigeria. Our identification strategy characterizes affected children based on distance heterogeneities between the household and the closest...

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Birth order effects, parenting style, and son preference

Kim, Jun Hyung; Wang, Shaoda - 2021

, suggesting weakened role of son preference within families in contemporary China. …

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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-effect linear probability model on Nigeria data, it exploits the quasi-randomness of these measures to estimate their effect on school attendance after the lockdown was lifted....

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Consequences of war : Japan's demographic transition and the marriage market

Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021

This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and...

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Economic preferences across generations and family clusters : a large-scale experiment

Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2020 - This version: July 2, 2020

market success. We present a holistic view of how economic preferences are related within families. In an experiment with 544 … families (and 1,999 individuals) from rural Bangladesh we find a large degree of intergenerational persistence of economic …-economic background data. We discuss possible transmission channels for these relationships within families and find indications that …

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The impact of family size and sibling structure on the great Mexico-U.S. migration

Bratti, Massimiliano; Fiore, Simona; Mendola, Mariapia - 2019

effects on migration. We find that large families per se do not boost offspring out-migration. Yet, the likelihood of …

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