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Migration Restrictions Can Create Gender Inequality : The Story of China's Left-Behind Children
Gao, Xuwen; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants with a rural hukou that severely restricts their children …'s access to urban schools. As a result, 69 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use two regression … are more likely to separate from children to take advantage of new opportunities in cities. Those workers earn much more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226187
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Mental Health Stigma
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015
Comparing self-reports to administrative data records on diagnosis and prescription drug use, we find that survey respondents under-report mental health conditions 36% of the time when asked about diagnosis and about 20% of the time when asked about prescription drug use. Survey respondents are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457427
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The Stress Cost of Children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457444
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Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011
This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using...
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The economics of poverty traps
Barrett, Christopher B. (ed.); Carter, Michael R. (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2019
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The economics of poverty traps
Barrett, Christopher B. (ed.); Carter, Michael R. (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2019
Trap Mechanisms -- 9. Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End. Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investments in Children …
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Lock-downs, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020
Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481975
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Knowledge, Stigma, and HIV Testing : An Analysis of a Widespread HIV/AIDS Program
Yang, Dean; Allen, James E.; Mahumane, Arlete; Riddell, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using randomized methodologies, we study a common community HIV/AIDS program that seeks to promote HIV testing by improving knowledge and reducing stigmatizing attitudes. Contrary to expectations, the program has a substantial negative effect on HIV testing rates. We provide evidence of likely...
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Agglomeration Economies and Race Specific Spillovers
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Fu, Shihe; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Racial social isolation within and across workplaces may reduce firm productivity. We provide descriptive evidence that African-Americans feel socially isolated from Whites. To test whether isolation affects productivity, we estimate models of Total Factor Productivity for manufacturing firms...
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Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion : Evidence from an Information Intervention
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2016
Does knowledge about antipoverty programs spread quickly within poor communities or are there significant frictions, such as due to social exclusion? We combine longitudinal and intra-household observations in estimating the direct knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural...
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