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Childhood determinants of internal youth migration in Senegal

Herrera, Catalina; Sahn, David E. - 2020

developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa … childhood socioeconomic determinants in later youth migration decisions to rural and urban areas. RESULTS: We find that young … areas for both men and women. CONTRIBUTION: We contribute to the sparse literature on internal youth migration in developing …

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The long-term impact of parental migration on the health of young left-behind children

Li, Jinkai; Luo, Erga; Cockx, Bart - 2023

In 2015, 15% of all children in China were left behind in the countryside because at least one of their parents migrated to a city. We implement an event study analysis between 2010 and 2018 on five waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) to investigate the dynamic effects of parental...

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Coordination games played by children and teenagers : on the influence of age, group size and incentives

Glätzle-Rützler, Daniela; Sutter, Matthias; Zoller, … - 2024

Efficient coordination is a major source of efficiency gains. We study in an experimental coordination game with 718 children and teenagers, aged 9 to 18 years, the strategies played in pre-adulthood. We find no robust age effects in the aggregate, but see that smaller group sizes and larger...

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From shame to game in one hundred years : an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010

Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...

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Migration and young child nutrition : evidence from rural China

Mu, Ren; De Brauw, Alan - 2013

The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas. We use the interaction terms between wage growth in...

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"High"-school : the relationship between early marijuana use and educational outcomes

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; New, Sonja C. de; Le, Trinh; … - 2013

We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational outcomes. We find evidence that early marijuana use is related to educational penalties that are...

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The impact of teenage motherhood on the education and fertility of their children : evidence for Europe

Navarro, María; Walker, Ian - 2012

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity...

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Peer effects on childhood and adolescent obesity in China

Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; He, Xiaobo - 2014

Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual heterogeneity are controlled for, it is evident that such...

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The impact of parents migration on the well-being of children left behind : initial evidence from Romania

Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration...

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Impact of hospital delivery on child mortality : an analysis of adolescent mothers in Bangladesh

Pal, Sarmistha - 2015

The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks, especially among vulnerable young adolescent mothers in Bangladesh. We exploit the exogenous variation in community's access to local health facilities (both traditional and modern)...

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