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and children, child human capital, and savings. Estimating how exogenous changes in fertility that are uncorrelated with …
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the inter-generational effects on the health and schooling of the woman’s children. Within two decades many of these … indicators of the welfare of women and their children improve significantly in conjunction with the program-induced decline in …
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The literature evaluating population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines exploring biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to chronic disease, disability, and late life mortality. The focus here is on research methods, findings, and questions that economists...
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The demographic transition changes the age composition of a population, affecting resource allocations at the household and aggregate level. If age profiles of income, consumption, savings and investments were stable and estimable for the entire population, they might suggest how the demographic...
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transfers to multiple children incorporating favoritism, altruism and guilt, we show the conditions under which guilt and … altruism can be separately identified by experimental variation in parental time with children. Based on within-twins estimates … of affected cohorts, we find that parents selected children with lower endowments to be sent down; that parents behaved …
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worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The … with fewer children for support. Inequality in China is also be traced to increasing returns to schooling, especially …
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investment in the human capital of children, although they occasionally estimate the short-run association with the adoption of …
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private opportunity costs of children have therefore increased, and parents have been motivated to substitute child schooling … quality, children. …
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policies that change fertility, if they are independent of parent preferences for children or the economic conditions which … welfare of children can are assessed from Kenyan household survey data by analysis of the consequences of twins, and the … of children in the family than would be expected due to variation in fertility which is accounted for by parent education …
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affected enrollment. Poor children who reside in communities randomly selected to participate in the initial phase of the …
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