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Family Structure, Fertility and Child Quality in Colombia.
Ribero, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000
This paper analyzes how family structure and fertility alter children quality in Colombia. Reduced form models to … determine marital status of women and number of children ever born are estimated considering factors that affect women …'s bargaining powers inside the marriage. Tentative estimates of structural interdependence between these variables and children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005783471
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Fertility and Child mortality in Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana.
Shultz, T.P.; Benefo, K. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005783498
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Visitations and Transfers in Non Intact Households.
Del Boca, D.; Ribero, R. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1999
Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005783511
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Demand for Children in Low Income Countries.
Shultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005675222
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Eroding the Economic Foundations of Marriage and Fertility in the United States.
Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000
currently married, and how many children they have. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256234
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The Impact of Institutional Reform 1979 Through 1987 on Fertility in Rural China.
Schultz, T.P.; Yi, Z. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000
This empirical study brings together data on the local timing of the rural household responsability system reforms in China from 1970 through 1987 and assesses the association of the local reforms with individual parity-specific fertility changes as measured in the in-depth fertility survey....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256235
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Baby Boom or Bust? Changing Fertility in Post-Communist Czech Republic and Slovakia
Chase, R.S. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1996
for children during Communism through substitution effects for women's earnings and income effects for men's. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005675236
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Inequality in the Distribution of Personal Income in the World: How it is Changing and Why.
Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2000
The variance in the logarithms of per capita GDP in purchasing power-parity prices increased in the world form 1960 to 1968 and decreased since the mid 170s. In the later period the convergence in intercountry incomes more than offset any increase in within country inequality. Approximately...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256222
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Inequality in the Distribution of Personal Income in the World: How It Is Changing and Why
Schultz, T.P. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998
The variance in the logarithms of per capita GDP in purchasing-power prices increased in the world from 1960 to 1968 and decreased since the mid 1970s. In the laterperiod the convergence in intercountry incomes more than offset any increase in within country inequality. Approximately two-thirds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005675219
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Determinants of School Attainment of Boys and Girls in Turkey
Tansel, A. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1998
This study investigates the determinants of school attainments of boys and girls in Turkey. Although high levels of enrollements have been achieved at the primary school level for both boys and girls in much of Turkey, substantial regional differences remain. In particular, in the Southeastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487225