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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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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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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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Will you marry me ... if our children are healthy? : the impact of maternal age and the associated risk of having a child with health problems on family structure

Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2019

Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes when women have babies in their forties. These data...

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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...

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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft

We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This is the first paper, to our knowledge, to provide estimates of sibling...

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Family background, education, and earnings : the limited value of "test-score transmission"

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2024

students in Hebrew-language schools from eighth grade to age 29, we provide evidence that despite Israeli schools being …

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Driver of returns to schooling : education-related policies or family background?

Soon, Jan-Jan; Lim, Hock Eam - 2024 - Version: August 2024

Does schooling pay off? - a seemingly straightforward question, but it is in fact a puzzle among economists. Answers would differ based on how the returns to schooling are estimated. Among the top concerns is whether such estimations have any causal connotation between the amount of schooling...

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