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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
early health shocks for children. We estimate a human capital production function and establish that, for this sample, early …An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in …
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The Supply of Child Labour
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763893
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How Distance to a Non-Residential Parent Relates to Child Outcomes
Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; Stratton, Leslie S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
, behavioral, and health outcomes for a population sample of children from nonnuclear families in Denmark. Instrumental variables …A substantial and growing fraction of children across Europe and the US live in single parent households. Law practices … are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children following parental separation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960109
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Far Above Rubies: The Association Between Bride Price and Extramarital Sexual Relations in Uganda
Bishai, David; Grossbard, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The custom of bride price involves the payment of goods or cash from the groom’s family to the bride’s family at the time of marriage. We present a theory that views bride price as a payment in hedonic markets for marital fidelity. Data from a household survey in Uganda are used to test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761945
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Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight
Del Bono, Emilia; Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762177
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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822574
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The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind
Antman, Francisca M - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses … parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652104
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How Does the Presence of Children Affect Dependent Care? A Psycho-Economic Approach
Giménez, José Ignacio; Marcén, Miriam; Molina, José … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
that the presence of children has on the time devoted to elder care. We combine the approach of the Social Cognitive Theory …", i.e, the presence of children, while parents are engaged in elder care activities, increases by 11.63% the time devoted … per day when children are present during adult care activities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822638
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703735
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Population and Health Policies
Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting … biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to late life mortality, chronic disease, and disability, though their … economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976897