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regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of … children vis-à-vis home production. This paper finds that, similarly to higher-income countries, there is a positive education … better care for their children, thus increasing the socioeconomic gap. …
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This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio …-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well …
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of ten caregivers of children aged 2-6 years. In the impact evaluation, the primary outcome was caregivers' use of …
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targeted caregivers of children aged 6 to 15 in vulnerable communities in the country. Treated caregivers were visited by a … their children for misbehaving. The effect is greater for caregivers with higher pre-intervention levels of coercive … of school-aged children in highly violent middle-income settings. …
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mental health but observed a decrease in physical violence against children among female caregivers. While these findings …
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fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a … significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …
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Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers' employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers' longer employment interruptions. This...
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fertility. As male education remains unchanged by the reforms, later life education reduces the pre-existing gender earnings gap …
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children's health and cognitive outcomes, and explores whether shocks at certain periods matter more than others. The paper … variation in children's exposure to a negative shock at different periods early in life. It is shown that children exposed to …, children affected by the floods in the first trimester of pregnancy score lower on cognitive tests. Potential mechanisms are …
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