In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond … previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults rather than agents, we develop a noncooperative model …

stay in their neighbourhood, and this effect is more pronounced in more deprived neighbourhoods. Estimation is based on …Theories about neighbours' influence on children based on social capital, cohesion and disorganisation stress the … importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on the effect of neighbours on a child …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden … larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor children in the three regions live outside poor neighbourhoods. A … disproportionally large fraction of children with backgrounds from low- and middle-income countries live in poor neighbourhoods …

behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on one or two dimensions of neighbourhoods …: typically poverty and ethnicity. This paper argues that neighbourhoods have multiple dimensions and that models of neighbourhood … gain insight into the interaction between individual and neighbourhood characteristics which lead to the choice of a …

, education and personality skills do not always raise the family earnings of women in this cohort, as women with very high …

We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic …

Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average …