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Does more mean better? : Sibling sex composition and the link between family size and children's quality
Baez, Javier E. (contributor) - 2008
causal effect of family size on several measures associated with either the allocation of resources towards children within … the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative … likely to enroll in school and about twice as likely to be held back in school. A larger family also increases the likelihood …
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Population policies, fertility, women's human capital, and child quality
Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2007
consequences of such family planning programs almost never assess their long-run consequences, such as on labor supply, savings, or … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider … independent of the reproductive preferences of parents or unobserved constraints that might influence family life cycle behaviors …
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The heterogeneous impact of pension income on elderly living arrangements : evidence from China's new rural pension scheme
Cheng, Lingguo; Liu, Hong; Zhang, Ye; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of pension income on living arrangements of the elderly. Taking advantage of a unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly address the endogeneity of pension status and income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283126
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Coresidency, ethnicity, and happiness of China's rural elders
Connelly, Rachel; Iannotti, Michael; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 Population Census of China and the 2011 Chinese Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES) to analyze coresidency...
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Paid parental leave and families' living arrangements
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018
We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...
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Child welfare and old-age security in female headed households in Tanzania
Seebens, Holger (contributor) - 2009
This paper is concerned with patterns of expenditure and child welfare among female headed (FHH) and male headed households (MHH) in Tanzania as well as with the underlying cause of potentially different patterns. I estimate semiparametric Engel curves to investigate household expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794027
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Was the mandal commission right? : living standard differences between backward classes and other social groups in India
Gang, Ira N. (contributor); Sen, Kunal (contributor);  … - 2008
Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) since independence were recommended for Other Backward Classes (OBC) by...
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Differences across countries and time in household expenditure patterns : implications for the estimation of equivalence scales
Daley, Angela; Garner, Thesia Isedora; Phipps, Shelley A.; … - 2020
differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person …
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Urban consumption inequality in China, 1995-2013
Xia, Qingjie; Li, Shi; Song, Lina - 2017
We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0.32 in 2002, but increases to 0.36 in 2013, which...
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The household budget survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew - 2018
We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the surveys themselves as source material, have traced the...
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