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educational investments and labor force participation based on matching regimes. …
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We examine the effects of different kinds of domestic abuse (physical violence, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and physical violence while the victim is pregnant) on health outcomes of children born to victims. We use data on approximately 0.6 million children born between 1975 and 2013 across...
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We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of cognitive development and academic achievement in late childhood. We estimate that a one standard...
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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural … and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this … account the endogeneity of the residency and labor force participation decisions of older persons. We find that the effect of …
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participation, hours of work and hours of household production of men and women over time and across states? As CLM offers more … traditional gender roles this implies a negative association between availability of CLM and the labor supply of women who are … availability are almost always negative for cohabiting and married women, and sometimes also for single women. The effects of CLM …
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and couples in which women earned more. The empirical results for dual-earner couples are in line with the theory. The …
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Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …
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more so for childless whites and where there are fewer men per woman. Effects are larger for college-educated men and women …
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robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Earnings analysis of … with within-couple age difference, but this is due to the fact that women with differently-aged spouses work more hours not …
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Economists have previously suggested that gains from marriage can be generated by complementarities in production (gains from specialization and exchange) or by complementarities in consumption (gains from joint consumption of household public goods and joint time consumption). This paper uses...
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