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wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using … is not explicit in Sen's original set-up, but is key to the development and happiness of young children. A second set of … models indicates that the daily activities of very young children are related to household income but that in some cases the …
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Although the strong positive correlation between parental educational expectations (PEE) and child academic achievement is widely documented, little is known about PEE's effects on child psychological outcomes and the mechanisms through which it may work. Hence, in this paper, using nationally...
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beneficial impacts on health, children's future labor incomes, crime, education, and mothers' labor incomes, with greater …
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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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There is mixed evidence in the existing literature on whether children are associated with greater subjective well … between children and subjective well-being is positive only in developed countries, and for those who become parents after the … individuals are more likely to have children. …
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Based on a unique repeated cross-sectional data set of school-aged children in Europe, the Middle East and North … America, we analyze how children's subjective well-being is related to parents' employment status, depending on the … institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across …
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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 … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …
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This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …
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About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of … increase of papers, we provide the first overview of economic experiments with children and adolescents. We focus on the …
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Despite increasing attention being paid to the temporal dynamics of childhood disadvantage, children's neighborhood … children's long-run neighborhood conditions depends on the stability in children's neighborhood experiences over time. We … investigate the temporal stability in children's neighborhood environment, focusing on two of the most commonly studied …
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