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neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented … here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of …-spatial relationship between the environment and stature. -- family economics ; stature ; wealth ; inequality ; insolation ; vitamin D …
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Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we make two contributions to the literature on end-of-life transfers. First, we show that unequal bequests are much more common than generally recognized, with one-third of parents with wills planning to divide their estates unequally among...
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households. -- instrumental partner-violence ; non-cooperative family decision-making ; welfare policy …
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We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the … likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises …
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first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our …
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We demonstrate how mothers, fathers, and 15-17-year-old students alter their schedules around the K-12 academic year … document several notable results. First, mothers are substantially more affected by the school year than are fathers. When … school is in session, mothers sleep less, spend more time caring for family members and driving them around, and spend less …
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Under the common-law system of coverture in the United States, a married woman relinquished control of property and wages to her husband. Many U.S. states passed acts between 1850 and 1920 that expanded a married woman's right to keep her market earnings and to own separate property. The former...
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