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have had at least one child already. In addition to our short-term effect estimation, we also test the effects of storm …
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reduced child support.These incentives have negative effects on children's human capital development and health, with economic … health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some … child health. Parental characteristics and time use data suggest that economic incentives for joint custody may limit …
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evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …
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migrate to the United States and leave their children behind. Then, after the parent(s) have achieved some degree of stability … in the United States, the children follow. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, we examined the hypothesis that … separation during migration results in problems at school after re-unification. We find that children separated from parents …
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implications of the Lanham Act for children's long-run outcomes related to educational attainment, family formation, and labor …
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representative cohorts of children born to the NLSY respondents over time with detailed information on families, locations, health … harm child development and children's long run outcomes. Using the detailed geocoded data that follows national … plant opened or closed in between the conceptions of different children in the same family. I find that children who were …
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While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children …, little is known about its long-term effects. We investigate the effect of women's political empowerment on children's human … exposure to women's suffrage during childhood leads to large increases in educational attainment for children from economically …
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This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure,' 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
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This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender division of labor. It identifies and analyzes cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using most recent data available from the Time Use National...
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