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-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production … endogenous and they depend on local prices and household income, as well as on the exogenous determinants of cognition and health …
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We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background …, prior child cognition and health, and child investments. We use income and local prices to control for the endogeneity of …
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We use data from marriage records in Murcia, Spain, in the 18th century to study the role of women in social mobility in the pre-modern era. Our measure of socioeconomic standing is identification as a don or doña, an honorific denoting high, though not neccesarily, noble status. We show that...
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Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in … proportion of time spent with the noncustodial parent and the ex-post parental income distribution. Our results show that a more … equal allocation of time with the child, though beneficial to the children, may have a negative effect for the mother …
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income, in part due to the subsidies to the young from sharing housing with parents. Based on our estimates of the effects of …In many countries of the world the co-residence of young adults aged 25-34 with their parents is not uncommon and in …
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Despite the lower quality of education provided Africans compared with whites in South Africa, the percentage wage gains associated with additional years of primary, secondary, and higher education are substantially larger for Africans than for whites in 1993, and they increase for both race...
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This research examines differences in earnings structure between Communist and post-Communist Czech Republic and Slovakia using four sets of similar micro-data. It presents hypotheses about how earnings dispersion returns to education and returns to experience will change across regimes and...
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and aggregate level. If age profiles of income, consumption, savings and investments were stable and estimable for the …
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