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Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution
Lindert, Peter H.; Nafziger, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Just how unequal were the incomes of different classes of Russians on the eve of Revolution, relative to other countries, to Russia's earlier history, and to Russia's income distribution today? Careful weighing of an eclectic data set provides provisional answers. We provide detailed income...
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Family Planning: Program Effects
Miller, Grant; Babiarz, Kimberly Singer - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
-income countries. In doing so, it focuses on fertility outcomes (the number and timing of births), women's health and socio … programs may only explain a small share of fertility decline in real-world settings. Family planning programs may also have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951137
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Shocking Behavior : Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations
Bleakley, Hoyt; Ferrie, Joseph P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Does the lack of wealth constrain parents' investments in the human capital of their descendants? We conduct a fifty-year followup of an episode in which such constraints would have been plausibly relaxed by a random allocation of wealth to families. We track descendants of those eligible to win...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951333
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Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard; Kazianga, Harounan; Walque, Damien de - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or...
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Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
Eggleston, Karen Nisa; Zeckhauser, Richard; Fang, Hai; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … prospects affect fertility. Then a well-validated instrumental variable isolates this effect. Female employment reduces a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635938
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Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...
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Income-distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility
Kremer, Michael; Chen, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
access to educational opportunities could permanently reduce inequality. Empirical evidence suggests that the fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774623
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Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords "child lab*r" reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present decade....
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049756
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Fertility Decline and Missing Women
Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
availability of prenatal sex-diagnostic technology, the declining fertility rate is a hypothesized factor. Suppose a couple …. This paper empirically measures the relationship between desired fertility and the sex ratio. Standard survey questions on … fertility preferences ask the respondent her desired number of children of each sex, but people who want larger families have …
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