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household. We estimate the e?ects of the reform in the probability of divorce/separation, the distribution of household chores … that despite the low divorce probability among seniors, transfers to senior women have substantial e?ects on their … divorce/separation increasing it by 1.8 ? 2.7 percentage points implying an increase of around 18 ? 19% on the divorce …
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household. We estimate the e?ects of the reform in the probability of divorce/separation, the distribution of household chores … that despite the low divorce probability among seniors, transfers to senior women have substantial e?ects on their … divorce/separation increasing it by 1.8 ? 2.7 percentage points implying an increase of around 18 ? 19% on the divorce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765758
This paper studies the e§ect of credit constraints and constraints on transfers between parents and children, on di …§erences in labor and schooling across children within the same household, with an application to gender. When families are … children are still driven by comparative advantage. However, if interfamily transfers are constrained so that parents cannot o …
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We test the existence of changes in the relationship between fertility and schoolingin Colombia for women from 30 to 40 … Survey from 1995 and 2005. We found a reduction in the fertility during thisperiod and an increase in the educative level of … the population. According to ourresults the total number of children a woman has, keeps an inverse relationship withher …
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perception. Our findings show that women tend to be less satisfied at work as the number of children increases, while men are …
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ABSTRACTWe investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern is with how the size and sign of the effect may depend on the design of the program. Using a simple model we show that an education CCT that conditions renewal on...
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In this paper, we attempt to analyze the determinants of unintended births among Colombian women aged 40 years old or more using data from the `Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud ENDS- 2005, which is Colombia´s national demographic and health survey. Given the especial characteristics of...
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Abstract: This paper asks whether school based management may help reducing risky sexual behavior of teenagers. For this purpose we use student level data from Bogota to identify students from Concession School (CS), who are enrolled in public education system with a more school management...
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Abstract: This paper explores the correlation between school factors and the differentiated results on sexual behavior between boys and girls in Bogota. A school stratified propensity score matching was performed to match each boy of the sample with the most similar girls in individual,...
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We analyze the determinants of subjective returns of higher education in Colombia. The information on expectations has been collected in categories, motivating the use of interval regression and an ordered probit approaches for modeling the relationship between beliefs and measures of ability,...
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