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Thomas, Duncan; LaFave, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Whereas studies have established the intra-household distribution of resources affects allocation decisions, little is known about how these decisions are affected by the distribution of resources among co-resident and non co-resident extended family members. Drawing on theoretical models of...

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Does the Gender of Offspring Affect Parental Political Orientation?

Lee, Byungkyu; Conley, Dalton - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Recently, the sex of child has been widely used as a natural experiment and shown to induce change of the allegedly stable political predisposition, however, prior results have been contradictory: in the U.K., researchers found that having daughters leads to parents favoring left-wing political...

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Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children

Deaton, Angus; Stone, Arthur A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …

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Do Financial Incentives Affect Fertility?

Cohen, Alma; Dehejia, Rajeev; Romanov, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper investigates how fertility responds to changes in the price of a marginal child and in household income. We … construct a large, individual-level panel data set of married Israeli women during the period 1999-2005 that contains fertility … subsidy for infra-marginal children). We find a significant and positive price effect on fertility: the mean level of marginal …

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Teen Smoking and Birth Outcomes

Tekin, Erdal; Walker, MaryBeth; Wallace, Sally - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In the U.S. teen mothers are more likely to give birth to low birth weight babies than non-teen mothers. There is also substantial evidence that smoking is a risk factor correlated with low birth weight. Low birth weight is a costly outcome in both the short and long term for parents, children,...

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House Prices and Birth Rates: The Impact of the Real Estate Market on the Decision to Have a Baby

Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

fertility decisions. Recognizing that housing is a major cost associated with child rearing, and assuming that children are … fertility. This applies to both potential first-time homeowners and current homeowners who might upgrade to a bigger house with …

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Causes and Consequences of Early Life Health

Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in adulthood, using height as a marker of health in childhood. After reviewing previous evidence, we present a conceptual framework that highlights data limitations and methodological problems associated with the...

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Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors: Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland

Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey; Corman, Hope; Noonan, Kelly - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in 2008 and substantial recovery by 2012, to investigate the extent to which the effects of a recession on health behaviors are lingering or short-lived and to explore...

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Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints: Why do Poor Children Perform so Poorly?

Caucutt, Elizabeth; Lochner, Lance; Park, Youngmin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The economic and social mobility of a generation may be largely determined by the time it enters school given early developing and persistent gaps in child achievement by family income and the importance of adolescent skill levels for educational attainment and lifetime earnings. After providing...

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Time is Money: Life Cycle Rational Inertia and Delegation of Investment Management

Mitchell, Olivia; Kim, Hugh Hoikwang; Maurer, Raimond - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper incorporates two empirically-grounded insights into a dynamic life cycle portfolio choice model: the fact that investors forego the opportunity to accumulate job-specific skills when they spend time managing their own money, and the observation that efficiency in financial decision...

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