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suggests that mothers' paid work increased substantially following the introduction of the child care program. I then study the … implications of the Lanham Act for children's long-run outcomes related to educational attainment, family formation, and labor …
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explanatory variables. This approach is applied to German survey data. Our estimation results suggest that a reduction in tobacco …
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Physically attractive individuals experience a range of advantages in adulthood including higher earnings; yet, how attractiveness influences earlier consequential decisions is not well understood. This paper estimates the effect of attractiveness on engagement in risky behaviours in...
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for children's marriage. This paper investigates how a demographic factor – a large number of surplus men in the marriage … ratios among children and intense smoking among fathers. Considering worsening sex ratios and highly competitive marriage …
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on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy effect is weaker and non-existent for older children and for girls suggesting that gender-directed conditional cash …
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impact on birth outcomes of children of female workers who are affected by smoking bans in the workplace. Analyzing a 2004 … law change in Norway that extended smoking restrictions to bars and restaurants, we find that children of female workers … suggestive evidence of substituting behavior, i.e. a greater likelihood of smoking at home among fathers, since children born to …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves …
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the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …
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and noncognitive development is weaker, and is restricted to children of less educated mothers. We conclude that …This paper uses propensity score matching methods to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and children … interventions which increase breastfeeding rates would improve not only children's health, but also their cognitive skills, and …
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the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and sons, and consequently their children …'s later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …
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