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-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …
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The Covid-19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in … challenging situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 … percent of the German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all …
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influence of children’s cognitive skills and parents’ socioeconomic background on cooperation. …We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 to 6. In a unified experimental framework, we … game. We find that third-party punishment doubles cooperation rates in comparison to a control condition. Children also …
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-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature … fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the …
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dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …
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locations over a one-dimensional interval. Parents decide whether or not to educate their children. The model therefore combines …
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Review of Erika Langmuir Imagining Childhood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-10131-7.
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, parents and children, while women helped their children. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/311.pdf]. …, Indonesia, before and after the tsunami. Children, older adults and females were the least likely to survive. Whereas socio …
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An evaluation of a program that aims to improve children’s reading skills by providing classes with age …‐appropriate reading material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read‐athon. [Working paper No. 305]. URL: [http …
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The purpose of the ASER 2009’s rapid assessment survey in rural areas is twofold: (i) to get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level) at the district level; and (ii) to measure the change in these basic learning and...
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