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Modern Body Mass Index Values, Marital Status, and Household Size : 1980s to the Present
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
The body mass index (BMI) is the primary means of classifying obesity and reflects a complex set of interactions related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height, and height reflects the cumulative price of net...
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Preterm Births and Educational Disadvantage : Heterogeneous Effects Across Families and Schools
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna - 2019
for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as well as whether family socioeconomic resources and school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861393
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Robots, Marriageable Men, Family, and Fertility
Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021
Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other occupations and sectors that require more social...
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Globalization, Gender, and the Family
Keller, Wolfgang - 2020
-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … due to Chinese import competition lead to a move towards family, with higher rates of fertility, parental leave, and … labor market when young, and a negative trade shock induces women to substitute more to family activities than men. High …
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Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations : Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes
Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin; Ye, Han - 2022
We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members’ labor supply and child outcomes by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081430
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Fertility and Family Labor Supply
Jakobsen, Katrine Marie; Jørgensen, Thomas; Low, Hamish - 2022
labor supply responsiveness of couples through a life-cycle model of family labor supply and fertility. Allowing fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083476
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The Timing of Parental Job Displacement, Child Development and Family Adjustment
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton - 2022
This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of...
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Early Childcare Duration and Students' Later Outcomes in Europe
Boca, Daniela Del; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022
The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
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Fertility, human capital accumulation, and the pension system
Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - 2009
deterministically chosen but the children's future ability is in part stochastic, in part determined by the family background, and in …
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