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Reversal of gender gaps in child development: Evidence from young children in India

Lopez Boo, Florencia; Canon, Maria Eugenia - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 55-59

This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses its sign for the upper caste, with girls performing...

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Evidence on the efficacy of school-based incentives for healthy living

Cuffe, H.E.; Harbaugh, W.T.; Lindo, J.M.; Musto, G.; … - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1028-1036

We analyze the effects of a school-based program that offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and individual fixed effects models to measure the effect of the prizes, with variation in the timing of prize...

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The Incompatibility of Materialism and the Desire for Children: Psychological Insights into the Fertility Discrepancy Among Modern Countries

Li, Norman; Patel, Lily; Balliet, Daniel; Tov, William; … - In: Social Indicators Research 101 (2011) 3, pp. 391-404

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Children, spousal love, and happiness: an economic analysis

Grossbard, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: Review of Economics of the Household 11 (2013) 3, pp. 447-467

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth’s 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is...

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Marriage as a commitment device

Cigno, Alessandro - In: Review of Economics of the Household 10 (2012) 2, pp. 193-213

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A demographic analysis of the family structure experiences of children in the United States

Blau, David; Klaauw, Wilbert - In: Review of Economics of the Household 6 (2008) 3, pp. 193-221

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Do children stabilize relationships in Denmark?

Svarer, Michael; Verner, Mette - In: Journal of Population Economics 21 (2008) 2, pp. 395-417

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School absenteeism, work and health among Brazilian children: Full information versus limited information model

Machado, Danielle Carusi; Milcent, Carine; Huguenin, Jacques - In: Economia 14 (2013) 2, pp. 46-60

We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health status and child labor). We relieved the assumption of independence of the disturbance terms of each equation. Moreover, if causality mechanisms between these three components...

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Comparative Perspectives on Child Poverty: A review of poverty measures

White, Howard; Leavy, Jennifer; Masters, Andrew - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 4 (2003) 3, pp. 379-396

and education are often included. But these are not necessarily the most direct measures of the things that matter to …

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Education and fertility: an investigation into Italian families

Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) March, pp. 254-236

analysis. First, the authors estimate the correlation between the female's education and her number of children, and then the … authors use also partner's education to take into account the family dimension. Furthermore, in the context of fertility, zero … results, a significant negative correlation may be observed between the level of education and the number of children …

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