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The labeling effect of a child benefits system : evidence from Russia 1994-2015
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2018
Impacts of child benefits and earned incomes on child wellbeing are identified for Russia. To predict earnings, a counter-factual commodity price model is constructed using information on local industrial composition and the evolution of world prices during 1994-2015 for six key commodity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949572
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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children : Evidence from Rural China
Giles, John - 2006
families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783694
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Does being "left–behind" in childhood lead to criminality in adulthood? : evidence from data on rural-urban migrants and prison inmates in China
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2021
Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648892
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Does Being "Left Behind" in Childhood Lead to Criminality in Adulthood? Evidence from Data on Rural-Urban Migrants and Prison Inmates in China
Cameron, Lisa A.; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2022
Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084066
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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age : Comparative Evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828599
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Childhood circumstances and health inequality in old age: comparative evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi; Yan, Binjian; Gill, Thomas M. - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248987
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New evidence on the causal link between the quantity and quality of children
Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor); Lavy, Victor (contributor) - 2006
A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a causal "quantity-quality tradeoff," then policies that discourage large families should lead to increased human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309272
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million children born to 600000 mothers during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892847
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Left behind: intergenerational transmission of human capital in the midst of HIV/AIDS
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Turan, Belgi - 2010
This paper provides evidence on how adverse health conditions affect the transfer of human capital from one generation to the next. We explore the differential exposure to HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa as a substantial health shock to both household and community environment. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006993
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The effect of early childhood development program attendance on future school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam; Viren, Vejoya - 2010
This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011584