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mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … father is college educated. In China, the conditional expectation function is convex for sons in urban areas, but linear in … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …
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status, immunization, schooling) using statewide household survey data on fertility and child health, and constructing … proxies for household and individual program eligibility. The results based on this limited data imply that Apni Beti Apna …
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"Empirical evidence suggests that the higher-order effects of natural disasters, which affect intangible assets, may be even more important than the material inter-industry effects. However, most existing general equilibrium models ignore higher order effects concerning human capital. Moreover,...
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This paper examines the links between adverse events, depression, and decision making in Nigeria. It investigates how events such as conflicts, shocks, and deaths can affect short-term perceptions of welfare, as well as longer term decisions on economic activities and human capital investments....
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Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this …
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This paper models household investments in young children when parents and older siblings share caregiving … not related to household structure, subsequent birth spacing, or other observable characteristics, so the presence of an …
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