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Policies, highlighting the need for better data on children's lives to inform the development of effective policies. It … introduces a new framework for child well-being measurement that identifies which aspects of children's lives should be measured … collect data on vulnerable groups of children. …
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of children’s lives: material well-being; housing and environment; education; health and safety; risk behaviours, such as …
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Schools are not only places where students acquire academic skills; they are also social environments where children …
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invest more in children and less in market-specific human capital and thus have lower earnings. We revisit these and other …
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early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …
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Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey´s optimal criterion by taxing less the moreelastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive...
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their own daughters and because an expansion of women's rights increases educational investments in children. We show that …
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Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic labor supply of women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous. We study GBT in a model in which labor supply elasticities emerge...
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Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day -- the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents, including the United...
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children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non … spend more on children, even when they have exactly the same preferences as their husbands. However, this does not …
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