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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

Two explanations for the weakening of the nuclear family are increased state support of poor unmarried mothers, and increased wage earning opportunities for women relative to those available for men. This paper tests both of these hypotheses by estimating a model for the joint determination of...

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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

-tenths interhousehold within country inequality, and one-twentieth between gender differences in education. … increase in within country inequality. Approximately two-thirds of this measure of world inequality is intercountry, three …

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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Meghir, Costas; Attanasio, Orazio; Cattan, Sarah; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2015

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children. We estimate production functions for cognitive and socio-emotional skills as a function of...

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A Two-Tiered Demographic System: "Insiders" and "Outsiders" in Three Swabian Communities, 1558-1914

Guinnane, Timothy W.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013

This paper presents first results from a project to reconstitute the demographic behavior of three villages in Württemberg (southern Germany) from the mid-sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Using high-quality registers of births, deaths, and marriages, and unusual ancillary sources, we...

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Co-residence, Life-Cycle Savings and Inter- Generational Support in Urban China

Rosenzweig, Mark; Zhang, Junsen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2014

We use unique data characterizing individual Savings for twins and non-twins in urban China to examine why the savings rates of the young are elevated relative to the middle-aged, despite rising individual life-cycle incomes. We show that inter-generational co-residence masks the true life-cycle...

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Female Household-Headship in Rural Bangladesh: Incidence, Determinants and Impact on Children's Schooling Shareen Joshi

Joshi, Shareen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

This paper uses data from Matlab, Bangladesh to examine the characteristics of female-headed households and estimate the impact of female-headship on children's schooling. Female householdheads in Matlab fall into two broad groups: widows and married women, most of whom are wives of migrants....

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Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocuation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send Down Movement

Li, Hongbin; Rosenzweig, Mark; Zhang, Junsen - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2008

In this paper, we use new survey data on twins born in urban China, among whom many experienced the consequences of the forced mass rustication movement of the Chinese “cultural revolution,” to identify the distinct roles of altruism and guilt in affecting behavior within families. Based on...

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Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2004

Researchers claim that children growing up away from their biological parents may be at a disadvantage and have lower human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and child fixed effects regressions to address the endogeneity...

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Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso

Akresh, Richard - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2005

Researchers often assume household structure is exogenous, but child fostering, the institution in which parents send their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence against this assumption. Using data I collected in Burkina Faso,...

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Income Inequality in Taiwan 1976-1995: Changing Family Composition, Aging, and Female Labor Force Participation

Schultz, T. Paul - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

Change in income inequality in Taiwan from 1964 to 1995 is sensitive to how household incomes are adjusted for … the widely noted increase in income inequality from 1980 to 1995, and calls into question whether income inequality … demographic transition has contributed only slightly to increasing income inequality across all ages. The entry of women into the …

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